RE: Muhammad the Greatest: A Comparative Study
December 9, 2012 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2012 at 4:11 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 9, 2012 at 3:58 pm)Al-Fatihah Wrote:(December 9, 2012 at 3:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Query: What is this evidence and how do we go about testing it?
Response: That depends on what's being tested and what hypothesis is being made.
Observation: The evidence depends on what's being tested... that's nice and vague, not to mention perfectly circular. Thank you for rewording my question. Now...
Query: ... would you mind answering it, please? I'll even make it easier for you and recap the comments that spawned this line of inquiry:
(December 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm)Al-Fatihah Wrote:(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.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'