rinard wrote:
I’m not a religious but astonished to know that Quran contains unbelievable scientific facts discovered just in the last century:
If I put the 'discoveries' aside (most of which were known or educated guesses before the Qu'ran was written), what is your point? Are you by any chance trying to imply that since there is so much scientific goodness in the book that the rest of its contents must be true as well? Sorry, but that won't work. If you are not implying this, my question remains: what is your point?
Scientists Declaration
Science doesn't work by declaration. It works by independent observation, a thing lost on all of the signees of the declaration. And yourself too, obviously. The list of names is quite pointless.
Without question, the Islamic culture was responsible for a great many scientific advances in a time when Europe was painfully stuck in a choking religious dark age. Nowadays, the reverse is true, which is a shame. There's good intellectual material in the peoples of the Middle East.
