RE: 2-big bang theory in the Quran
July 27, 2010 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2010 at 2:36 pm by Gfailure.)
Of course there is no science in the Quran, nor indeed in any religious text of any existing or long gone religion! The reason for that is simple, modern science came to be much later that all these holy scripts! How can there be in them, something that did not even exist as a concept?
I'm sure even before the time of the Quran, people did understand the concept of time. And so, they would sure understand that like everything, time had a beginning! All the texts do, is say, in a poetic way, that "there was nothing and then there was something, and that something was made by <insert desired God name here>"! It's like saying that Da Vinci designed first the helicopter! Making a drawing of something and saying "this should fly" is very different that actually making something that flies!! So no, there is no science in religious texts, there is only people who take passages and try to make them fit somehow in the modern world, just so they can say "HA, see? We are right, you are wrong"! Much like what people do with the "prophecies" of Nostradamus.
Religious texts are poetry and nothing more. If any history did exist in them, it is buried under tons of allegory and distortion, so much so, that they must not be taken at all seriously as historic texts nor be taken literally!
*Edit* Here is a small clip of father George Coyne, up till recently head of the Vatican observatory!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReV0nCuObcs
I'm sure even before the time of the Quran, people did understand the concept of time. And so, they would sure understand that like everything, time had a beginning! All the texts do, is say, in a poetic way, that "there was nothing and then there was something, and that something was made by <insert desired God name here>"! It's like saying that Da Vinci designed first the helicopter! Making a drawing of something and saying "this should fly" is very different that actually making something that flies!! So no, there is no science in religious texts, there is only people who take passages and try to make them fit somehow in the modern world, just so they can say "HA, see? We are right, you are wrong"! Much like what people do with the "prophecies" of Nostradamus.
Religious texts are poetry and nothing more. If any history did exist in them, it is buried under tons of allegory and distortion, so much so, that they must not be taken at all seriously as historic texts nor be taken literally!
*Edit* Here is a small clip of father George Coyne, up till recently head of the Vatican observatory!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReV0nCuObcs
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in, some of us just go one god further..." Richard Dawkins
"If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it." Bill Maher
"If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it." Bill Maher
