Uggggggg.
Mystic, Muslims are not the only ones who have apologists who try to retrofit their mythology to modern science.
Christians often quote Thomas Aquinas as having insight modern knowledge of Quantum Mechanics /Quantum Physics" as proof that the bible was a prediction and Jesus was the one true god.
Neurosurgeon Sam Harris always loves to try to use science to say that there is something to Buddhism. I don't agree with him either.
I have also run into Jews and Hindus that also claim that science points to their club.
Whatever religion's members want to claim they contributed to science, none of those findings mean that their god/club is the seat of curiosity and invention and discovery. Our species ability to find answers is not rooted in ambiguous words in old books of mythology. The ancient Greeks coined the word "atom" but back then, they only meant, the tiniest thing you could imagine. They had no clue, and could not have had any clue what a proton or neutron or quark or electron or Higgs Boson particle were. Saying that you "observe" something, does not mean you know anything about what you claim to have observed. Same thing with the words "Unidentified flying object" or "UFO". If you don't know what you are observing moving around in the sky, you don't get to default to little green men from Mars.
Bottom line, our species ability to be curious and make discoveries is not rooted on old mythology, those abilities are because of our evolution.
Mystic, Muslims are not the only ones who have apologists who try to retrofit their mythology to modern science.
Christians often quote Thomas Aquinas as having insight modern knowledge of Quantum Mechanics /Quantum Physics" as proof that the bible was a prediction and Jesus was the one true god.
Neurosurgeon Sam Harris always loves to try to use science to say that there is something to Buddhism. I don't agree with him either.
I have also run into Jews and Hindus that also claim that science points to their club.
Whatever religion's members want to claim they contributed to science, none of those findings mean that their god/club is the seat of curiosity and invention and discovery. Our species ability to find answers is not rooted in ambiguous words in old books of mythology. The ancient Greeks coined the word "atom" but back then, they only meant, the tiniest thing you could imagine. They had no clue, and could not have had any clue what a proton or neutron or quark or electron or Higgs Boson particle were. Saying that you "observe" something, does not mean you know anything about what you claim to have observed. Same thing with the words "Unidentified flying object" or "UFO". If you don't know what you are observing moving around in the sky, you don't get to default to little green men from Mars.
Bottom line, our species ability to be curious and make discoveries is not rooted on old mythology, those abilities are because of our evolution.
