RE: Muhammad the Greatest: A Comparative Study
December 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2012 at 3:28 pm by Al-Fatihah.)
(December 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm)cato123 Wrote: You're missing the point. Why should anyone take the teachings of Muhammad seriously if those that profess the faith do not?
Response: You should take anything that has truth to it as serious, despite what others do.
(December 9, 2012 at 1:47 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Not at all.
Sir Issac Newton was a horrible character you'd never want to have over for dinner. He was kind of crazy too, believing in nutty things like alchemy.
And he made great contributions to our understanding of Physics.
And that's all science cares about. Science ignores questions of someone's character and disregards any crazy ideas to focus on what can be demonstrated to be true.
Character is irrelevant to what is or isn't true.
Response: Yet the reporting of scientific information can only be reliable if the source is trustworthy. So the character of being truthful is essential. Even your claim that Isaac Newton made contributuins to physics is based on relying on the reports that say so, meaning those who reported it must be truthful for your claim to be credible.