Quranic Science

Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

 Really Javed, you are getting very silly now, quoting a text published a
quarter-century ago and a conference held 21 years ago in trying to
support your theory. Cosmology has advanced a great deal in that time
period, which incidentally, is a pretty hefty slice of modern
cosmology's life. You really need to update your knowledge.

Moreover, you take things out of context. When scientists talk about
problems, they are not saying we need to scrap all current theories.
Rather they are pointing to areas where more research needs to be done.
And a lot of that research has been done in the last quarter century.
The problems currently of interest to physicists are remarkably
different to those of the 1980s. Amazingly however, the basic models
have survived. Scientists still accept relativity, an expanding universe
created about 14 billion years ago, the relative abundance of the
elements, etc..

However today's models are more detailed, showing how the large scale
structure came about. A lot of this is simply due to increased computing
power allowing for more factors to be modelled rather than any
"breakthroughs" in scientific thought.

Your assertion that a rotating universe requires power to maintain the
rotation again shows how your mind operates. First you posit a rotation
then demand a God to supply energy to keep it rotating. And of course
you also demand a God for it to rotate relative to. Yet at no time have
you demonstrated that the universe indeed rotates - let alone that the
notion even makes sense.

Your suggestion that we need to throw up our hands and declare
everything to be a miracle simply because there are unanswered questions
remains at the heart of your position. And that invalidates your
pretence of talking about science. You may want to rent a copy of the
movie/creationist propaganda flick "no intelligence allowed". It takes
the same approach to evolution that you take to cosmology -
misrepresentations, distortions, selective quotes, outright lies,
whatever it takes to "prove" that you need a God to create intelligent life.

One cannot understand anything by attributing things to God. The God you
think keeps the universe spinning could just as easily make it stand
still (assuming either concept has any meaning), or make it bounce.
There is no predictive power in saying God did it.

 

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