Religions teach backward ideas - Yes & No

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I'm impressed that you can twist such obviously NON-SCIENTIFIC scriptures to mean something they quite obviously weren't meant to so let me put it to you straight ... the Quran is NOT NOW and NEVER WILL BE a book of science any more than the bible or the Torah are. They are books of religious beliefs, sometimes attempts to explain the universe from the POV of technologically primitive peoples, but NOT books of science.

In the conclusion, I said that the Quran is NOT a book of science but a book of Signs. Now why is that? It is because the Quran was meant to stand the test of time. Let me explain, before it was the age of Miracles, whereby when a Prophet of God came to the people, the people ask for miracles of God from the Prophets (splitting of the sea by Moses, cure for blind by Jesus, Splitting of the Moon by Muhammad (PBUT)) whereby all of these miracles done by God to show that the prophets were telling the truth. Now when cannot go back and check these Miracles. So how do you then check the authenticity of the Quran or test it?

Then came the age of Literature. Literature and poetry have been instruments of human expression and creativity, in all cultures. The world also witnessed an age when literature and poetry occupied pride of position, similar to that now enjoyed by science and technology. Even non-Muslim scholars agree that the Qur’an is Arabic literature par excellence – that it is the best Arabic literature on the face of the earth. The Qur’an challenges mankind to produce the likes of it:

And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Surah like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides Allah, if your (doubts) are true. But if ye cannot and of a surety ye cannot then fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith. (Chapter 2 Verse 23-24).

The challenge of the Qur’an, is to produce a single Surah (chapter) like the Surahs it contains. The same challenge is repeated in the Qur’an several times. The same challenge to produce a Surah (in Arabic of course), which, in beauty, eloquence, depth and meaning is at least somewhat similar to a Qur’anic Surah remains unmet to this day.

A modern rational man, however, would never accept a religious scripture which says, in the best possible poetic language, that the world is flat. This is because we live in an age, where human reason, logic and science are given primacy. Not many would accept the Qur’an’s extraordinarily beautiful language, as proof of its Divine origin. Any scripture claiming to be a divine revelation must also be acceptable on the strength of its own reason and logic. According to Albert Einstein, “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

We all know that many a times Science takes a ‘U-turn’. In the previous post I only considered established scientific facts and not hypotheses and theories based on mere assumptions and not backed by proof. Therefore, the Quran is from divine which could not have been written by man over 1400 years ago.

To conclude as the Quran says;

Soon will We show them Our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things? (Chapter 41 Verse 53)

Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of Night and Day,― there are indeed Signs for men of understanding (Chapter 3 Verse 190)