The Scientific Miracles

[KennyR]

Point 1) It is well known that the Islamic east had exceptional scientific knowledge inherited from the Greeks. Christianity destroyed all that.

Point 2) You can say that any text "pointed out" anything, you just have to be vague enough. For example you could say that the Bible and Nostradamus and Madame Fifi's book of the Pleasures of the Flesh all predicted the emergence of jet aircraft. It's just a matter of being creative, not logical.

Point 3) Islam is just another religion that attacks intellectual integrity in favour of dogma and unquestioning obedience to scripture and so is against science.

[KennyR]

Gotta agree with Cymric here. Religion by its nature is based on faith, and faith can be very, very blind. Science is based on reason on logic, and these are the best tools for mankind to probe the world around him. Faith itself is useless except as a comfort. At its worst, it can stifle the human spirit as much as any tyrant.

I still hold this: religion is one continuous assault on the human ability to reason. Like sacrificing babies for a good harvest and worshipping trees, it must be removed for progress.

[KennyR]

Worship is an insult to the human species.

[KennyR]

humble!=worship

[KennyR]

Worship: unquestioningly honour the existence of a being you can neither prove or disprove.

Humble: honour the existence of a real thing for real reasons.

[KennyR]

Worshipping trees is not worshipping the physical presence of the tree itself, you do know that right?