(May 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm)peacemaker Wrote: Listen brother, even if they did think that, the qur'an doesn't only speak about the Earth being completely round like a circle, but the qur'an describes the earth as more of a geographical shape, so the earth isn't really a 100% round.
"A geographical shape?" So it's, what... shaped like Australia?
peacemaker Wrote:Also, please realise that there are a lot of other scientific facts mentioned in the qur'an as well, like for example, when it was said by our creator that:What part of that is a fact?
"And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it." (Qur'an, 51:47)
And so on...
peacemaker Wrote:But... surely you would be smart enough to realise that an honest, illiterate, arab man couldn't have made things up like these, it is illiogical.Then I guess someone else wrote the Quran.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
