Posted: Jul 24, 2010 10:12 pm
While the whole idea of science embedded in the Koran is indeed nonsense, we shouldn't confuse it with early pre-koranic science (from Greece and elsewhere) being preserved, used and developed by Arabs while there was a lot of Christian fundamentalism clouding European thought. Who knows whether Christianity or Islam did more to retard or progress science? For now, I'll settle for science developing despite religion while taking advantage of commercial opportunities. Advocates of Christian or Muslim altruism, speak now. (Attempting to use science to support religion being opportunistic, not altruistic, btw.)Blackadder wrote:We should be sceptical of Quranic Science because there isn't any. It's a bunch of specious nonsense peddled by those who think that twisting half-coherent 7th century Arabic gibberish into new shapes to somehow fit with scientific advances of the modern age is valid scientific practice. It's not. It's a crock of shit and convinces no-one with a mental age greater than 8.