Dblock wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:Dblock, if you're so keen to have us believe Islam invented science, or some crazy gooseberry fool like that, why don't you offer up some evidence that backs you up?
Go play with fat chicks .
The Quran itself is a source but you too lazy to read.
Hello!! I'm not too lazy to read. Perhaps you could read the quotations I have selected below and explain your understanding of these words?It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float in an orbit.
Do you believe that the sun and moon orbit the earth in the way described here?By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; By the Moon as she follows him;
Do you really believe that the sun follows the moon in orbit?It is God who made for you the earth a fixed place and heaven for an edifice; And He shaped you, and shaped you well, and provided you with the good things. That then is God, your Lord, so blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.
Do you believe that the earth is a fixed place?Till, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout. We said: O Dhu'l-Qarneyn! Either punish or show them kindness.
Do you believe that there is a "setting-place" of the sun? And verily We have beautified the world's heaven with stars/lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame.
Do you honestly believe that the stars are missiles created by god to attack devils?And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?
Do you believe that the moon gives light?Narrated Anas: "That the Meccan people requested Allah's Apostle to show them a miracle, and so he showed them the splitting of the moon."
Do you believe this happened?Allah is He who created 7 heavens one above the other like a dome, and of the Earths, the like thereof, 7 planets but they are flat
Please explain in scientific terms what these 7 heavens are. Can you explain the 7 flat planets as anything other than inaccurate, and written by an uninformed man? Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a heap? - then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) wherein is hail. He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from whom He pleases, the vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.
Do you believe that rain forms in the way described here?Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe
Do you believe that Allah holds the birds up in the sky? I believe in aerodynamics.O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!
When did Allah give this authority?Source -
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Scientific_Er ... of_the_SunBack on topic, NASA's Mars Rover has uncovered evidence that Mars likely held lakes suitable for life in it's past.http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/58 ... ained-lifeFor those of us who do not believe that the earth is the central, fixed point in the universe created by an almighty being, this is exciting news, an indicator that Earth might not be unique in it's ability to sustain life.