(May 20, 2013 at 1:55 pm)exmuslim Wrote: I asked this to my Imam at the mosque, he told me that one day of god equal to 50000 years, so i told him that would be 300,000 years, but our earth as we have have found out is 4.7 billion years old. and our universe is quite older. to this he had no answer and said that he believed in what the quran says not what we discovered.
Give him credit for honesty, although what he said is simply bizarre. And he probably doesn't think it is, which is even more bizarre. I think that religious people are often the best argument against being religious.
Anyway, good on you for seeing through the insanity. Welcome to the forums.
"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
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