RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 19, 2015 at 5:16 pm
The ancient Egyptians had the ability to observe the sun. That didn't mean they knew it what it was made of or what as causing it's behavior. Nor did it make any of their polytheistic gods real.
Muslims are not the only ones to pull this tactic.
I had met once a fan of Aquinas, he claimed that Aquinas knew about QM. I asked him for his evidence, no math no formulas, just gave me an ambiguous quote.
That would be no different than saying the polytheistic gods of the Greeks were the real gods because that is where the word "atom" came from. "Atom" was not used back then in the same modern scientific way it is now. It was just a thought of "the smallest indivisible object you could imagine. They had no clue how small things really were or what they were made of or how they behaved. It merely meant small back then.
ALL religions do this. I've had others argue Jewish texts. Of course Christians do it. I've run into a couple of Hindus and even once a Rastafarian. If religion cant debunk science it tries to co opt it.
Muslims are not the only ones to pull this tactic.
I had met once a fan of Aquinas, he claimed that Aquinas knew about QM. I asked him for his evidence, no math no formulas, just gave me an ambiguous quote.
That would be no different than saying the polytheistic gods of the Greeks were the real gods because that is where the word "atom" came from. "Atom" was not used back then in the same modern scientific way it is now. It was just a thought of "the smallest indivisible object you could imagine. They had no clue how small things really were or what they were made of or how they behaved. It merely meant small back then.
ALL religions do this. I've had others argue Jewish texts. Of course Christians do it. I've run into a couple of Hindus and even once a Rastafarian. If religion cant debunk science it tries to co opt it.
