RE: Islam and Astronomy
February 23, 2014 at 3:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2014 at 3:12 pm by Simon Moon.)
Finding science in ancient religious texts is folly. The only thing that any religious text ever gets correct are things that were already known at the time.
The rest, including the Islamic examples given, are nothing more than trying to find passages that can retroactively be stretched to fit a modern discovery.
If there truly was science in these texts, they'd be able to make predictions about the natural world from them. The Bible, the Koran, the Vedas have made zero such predictions. They all fail on even the most basic observations, like geocentrism.
Even something as simple as "thou shalt boil your drinking water" would be a bit impressive.
Not completely related to this thread, but great none the less, a vid by Neil Degrasse Tyson -
The rest, including the Islamic examples given, are nothing more than trying to find passages that can retroactively be stretched to fit a modern discovery.
If there truly was science in these texts, they'd be able to make predictions about the natural world from them. The Bible, the Koran, the Vedas have made zero such predictions. They all fail on even the most basic observations, like geocentrism.
Even something as simple as "thou shalt boil your drinking water" would be a bit impressive.
Not completely related to this thread, but great none the less, a vid by Neil Degrasse Tyson -
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
