format_quote Originally Posted by
Independent
I agree with Rana Dajani, the Jordanian molecular biologist who states: “The Koran is not a science textbook. It provides people with guidelines as to how they should live their lives.”
You've no knowledge of the Quran nor of science the best you can muster in this case are refutations from the net having read none of the books and only snippets that agree with your ignorance on all subjects!
In fact if you did another search your search would yield this for instance:
Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. His book says that mountains have underlying roots. [1] These roots are deeply embedded in the ground, thus, mountains have a shape like a peg (see figures 7, 8, and 9).
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Figure 7: Mountains have deep roots under the surface of the ground. (Earth, Press and Siever, p. 413.) |
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Figure 9: Another illustration shows how the mountains are peg-like in shape, due to their deep roots. (Earth Science, Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 158.) |
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006406.html
Thickness is important, illustrated by icebergs. Ice floats in sea water because it has a lower density (
rhoice=920 kg.m
-3,
rhoseawater=1025 kg.m
-3). Using Newton's Second Law, F = m * g (recall that with m = volume x density) and Archimedes principle, we get: vol
ice .
rhoice . g = vol
displaced water .
rhowater . g. So,
rhoice/
rhowater=vol
displaced water/vol
ice.
Thus the ratio of displaced water/ice volume equals 0.9 meaning that 90% of an iceberg is below sealevel, whereas only 10% is above sea level.
Thus, density and thickness contrast between granite and gabbro (continent vs. ocean floor) both promote relatively high continents and relatively low ocean floor. Density, therefore, is a first order property that explains Earth's characteristic bimodal elevation distribution.
Layered Earth
In fact all the evidence there needs to be is that there are those things that look like pegs beneath mountains, everything else is irrelevant. Most people without research and especially back then when they thought the world was flat had no idea what lay beneath mountains pegs or otherwise!
Science is every changing and self correcting it isn't a stable whereas the second verse of the second chapter already tells us, there is no error therein:
2:2 to top
Sahih International
This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah -
thus people will only go as deep as their knowledge takes them but never fully grasp as scientests who have full knowledge of the Quran and Arabic (especially) and whatever they spend a lifetime reflecting upon as that which holds the deepest meanings in the fewest words is always the most expressive:
35:28----------- Only those fear Allah , from among His servants, who have knowledge {Alolamaa in Arabic literally those men of science}. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Forgiving.
format_quote Originally Posted by
Independent
In other places he is retranslating the Quran to make it sound vaguely scientific, at the expense of the beauty of its verse. On p.14 he quotes from the Quran thus: ‘And it is We who have constructed the heaven with might, it is We who are steadily expanding it.’ He says this fits with modern cosmological views relating to Big Bang and the continuing expansion of the universe.
sure you appreciate the 'beauty of the verse' in fact the verse does say:
وَالسَّمَاء بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ
Waalssamaa banaynaha biaydin wainna lamoosiAAoona
what is your interpretation of ''inna lamosiaoona'? go ahead dazzle me with your knowledge of Arabic, the Quran and science.
lastly, even though the Quran is meant as a book of guidance, indeed its miracles never cease القرآن الكريم لا تنقضي عجائبه
which is part of its transcendence and relevance to every generation- everything you write or attempt to explain in your clownish way will come up short, because you've not mustered at least one craft save the craft of BS and google to attempt to take on three or four or five crafts one shot!
If you want credibility on any topic try going to the source and not to answering islam you impostor, even your attempts to save your atheist pal are so insincere so enfeebled!
best,