home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky soc.culture.pakistan:18976 soc.culture.indian:42401 soc.culture.bangladesh:7200
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!usc!not-for-mail
- From: shivanan@nyquist.usc.edu (Mr. Shivanan Bhajekar)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh
- Subject: Re: The Quran and the Modern Science
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:27:43 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Lines: 67
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1hu3svINNl2q@nyquist.usc.edu>
- References: <1992Dec27.230644.40994@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1992Dec29.203201.45959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1992Dec31.112841.13157@topaz.ucq.edu.au>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nyquist.usc.edu
-
- Posted for FFT:
-
- In article <1992Dec31.112841.13157@topaz.ucq.edu.au> salama@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.203201.45959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, dchatterjee@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >> Yes, I am quite fascinated by mathematical descriptions ! Is it pagan ?
- > I appreciate that you fascinate mathematics. I myself am a mathematical
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- :):)
-
-
- >> Your innuendos against Hawking are merely stupid. Needless to say, please
- >
- > I think you are not in touch with the mainstream mathematical physicists.
- >His work is well disputed though he has done some good work. The trumpet of his
- >credibility is blown out of proportion to sell his book, "A brief history ...".
- >It was money making business.
-
-
- Excuse me but that's plain hogwash. Give me one physicist, mathematical
- or otherwise, of Hawking's stature who's not well-disputed. Hawking
- had God-like reverence even before he was to write the book. His
- credibility does'nt beg propaganda but rather, rests on his own work.
-
-
- >> go thru' the posting of Milind Saraph (where he quotes Pervez Amirali
- > I have read it. That is irrelevant.
-
- Why is Pervez irrelevant and busy B not? Pervez has some very good
- comments on B.. and pretty pertinent ones.
-
-
- > It is not the matter of the vision of the future. I have insisted on the
- >point that Dr.B's work is NOT a "proof" of the divine nature of the Quran. It
- >is a personal testimony. It just happened to be that Dr.B is a scientist and
- >his testimony carries the scientific notions. He appreciates the scientific
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- >aspects of the Quranic description of nature because he is a scientist
- ^^^^^^^^^
-
- He makes a pretty poor scientist since he seems to have forsaken the
- basic tools of his trade. Milind, here's how Salam has been trying
- to have the Quran as Divine and ascribe "scientific value" to it.
-
-
- >has talked about God and religion in term of science. He is much criticised
- >because his references are to the Quran. A famous Australian theoretical
- >physicist Paul Davies does the samething except that he associates with the
- >"western theology" and is praised for that reason. His book "The mind of God"
- >has won the UREKA prize.
-
- To compare B with Paul Davies is ridiculous. And can you produce ONE
- quote of Davies where he accepts the conventional God? His book
- "The accidental universe" might give an impression to the careless
- reader that he's talking
- about a grand designer. He does nothing of the sort. Nor does he
- in "The mind of God"
-
- >
- > I don't understand why you take Hawking's work as the gospel truth. I
-
- And why do you take the Quran as the gospel truth?
-
- FFT
-
-
-
-