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Dear Rashid
Pick up any translation of Quran
and you will see it talks about the heavens being raised without visible
support. If you look at the sky, you will not see pillars holding it up, I
sincerely assure you that. (I guess it also depends on how much of the bubbly
one takes). You don't need a scientist to tell you that anymore than you
need a scientist to tell you how to walk and talk. I guess it depends on how independent one
is and whether one feels insecure for the slightest thing or not. You are welcome to go talk to a scientist
and ask them 'I see stars. Is that true?'. I don't believe I need to.
Then there are people who see
stars in the daylight when their head is spinning, as in rotating I suppose..
I would not try and be as high
and mighty as to suggest that you do not know any real scientists, neither
should you. It is called arrogance.
Yes and there are some scientific papers on the Quran, like the one by the
3 Egyptian scientists calculating the exact speed of light from the Quran
based on "a day at your Lord is like a thousand years of what you
calculate". It is within at least one decimal
of the last NASA figure. (Approx 299,792.5 km/sec).
I talked about "it's LIKE a
blind rat that rejects everything it cannot see". By no stretch of the
imagination does it mean that blind rats do this. It is called an analogy,
and relates to people blinded by their own bias so as to reject everything
they do not approve of.
The Nikon camera cannot take a
beautiful picture if it is pointed at a blank wall. And someone has to
place the camera in front of the painting. And someone has to press the
button. And someone had to
manufacture the camera, and sell it to a buyer. The picture it takes comes
from somewhere, the object of which is say a
painting. Do you think the Mona Lisa could have been drawn by itself?
Apparently so. Perhaps you would like to wait till the next blockbuster
film comes along, made entirely randomly without a producer.
And tennis balls and volleyballs
being suspended in the air by them would invoke a lot of curiosity from
most human beings, except you. Helium filled balloons (helium is lighter
than air) on the other hand would not arouse curiosity. It is only when one
does not have an answer that one resorts to frivolous examples mixing
tennis balls with helium balloons.
Balls and balloons are both round (actually balloons never are
really round) but even a kid can tell the difference.
However, I commend you for
getting one answer right 'maybe'. Am I to assume that in the absence of
your being able to provide scientific proof that God does not exist, you
are now contemplating that 'maybe' HE exists?. Seems that my persistence
may have paid off.
Feroz
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