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- Subject: Re: The Quran and the Modern Science
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.140947.13158@topaz.ucq.edu.au>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:09:47 AET
- References: <1992Dec30.095317.13154@topaz.ucq.edu.au> <1hqvr2INNa9j@aludra.usc.edu> <1992Dec30.193629.14616@news.nd.edu> <1ht93lINNjpd@nyquist.usc.edu>
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- In article <1ht93lINNjpd@nyquist.usc.edu>, shivanan@nyquist.usc.edu (Mr. Shivanan Bhajekar) writes:
- > Posting for FFT:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec30.193629.14616@news.nd.edu> milind@agni.cc.nd.edu (Milind Saraph) writes:
- >>fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat) writes:
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- >>.......(deleted).....
- > For one, the postings by Salam/Mustafa have been extremely hazy.
- > Secondly, Salam proclaimed that the Prophet knew about everything
- > as it was a divine revelation. He CANNOT make such a claim and at
- > the same time bring in Science. If he wants to deal with pure faith,
- > that's fine. Just don't denigrate Science and scientists like
- > Hawking. You can define "perfect" as "that which is like Quran".
- > IMO, that's cheating.:)
-
- May I bring in poetry, literature, philosophy, sociology, ... along
- with divine revelation? Is science some kind of taboo? Or is science some
- kind of the holy of the holy not to be touched by the people who talk about
- religion?
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- >
- >> .....(deleted)......
- >
- >
- > It's been pointed out repeatedly that imagination need not be
- > constrained by existing knowledge. The classic cases are Verne and
- > Wells. Does that imply they had divine connections? Salam still
- > insists on the naive interpretations of B.
- >
- You call it "naive" interpretations and I call it a scientists'
- interpretations. Science is no longer a taboo in religion. People like
- Dr.B and Paul Davies (theoretical physicist who wrote "the mind of Gad")
- are talking about God and religion. Keep up with the latest developments. :-|)
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- > FFT
- >
- >
- >
- Salam
- (means paece)
-
- >
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