(October 2, 2023 at 11:28 am)Disagreeable Wrote: Watching Matt Dillahunty debate different muslims. More than one of them are insisting that there is science in the Koran and that those scientific predictions are so remarkable that the Koran must be true. I think that's an example of some stupid things that religious people say!
It is stupid. Here is how Neil deGrasse Tyson explains so-called "scientific predictions in the Quran who also gets bothered by deluded Muslims who fall for that trick
Quote:What typically happens is that devout people learn what scientists have discovered about the natural world and then go back into their religious texts in search of passages that hint at what is already known. But since the extracted information comes after-the-fact, it’s not useful to the advance of science. What you need to do, if you are convinced of Qur’anic foresight and inerrancy, is come up with predictions about the natural world derived from Qur’anic verse that will stimulate research. If any of it comes true (it would be a first time for such a thing, by the way) then scientists would be mining the Qur’an for its insights daily.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"