Allah, or Bible, to blame for some scientific inaccuracies in the Quran?
OP - January 23, 2009, 01:17 PM
I have been looking at the science in the Quran, and am lead the above conclusion... it reminds me of my marks when I copied my homework from the classroom dunce.
Bible science... The irony is that many of Christianity's most prominent advocates, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, are fully aware of these biblical inanities. Instead of acknowledging them, as they should, they go to great lengths to devise and promote long-winded, convoluted, but easily demolished "explanations" or cover ups for them.
The truth is that the Bible possesses no greater wisdom and insight in the area of science and technology that did the civilization which produced it. What strikes us as obvious today, when we compare biblical contradictions and incompatibilities with well-established scientific data, is how fraudulent the Bible really is. But, we must remember that the Bible was written between 3000 and 2000 years ago by ignorant men whose lives were dominated and controlled by the most primitive forms of superstition. When viewed from that vantage point, Bible science is understandable.
BIBLE SCIENCE excerpts from Louis W. Cable
If God really existed and was in fact the creator and Lord of the universe and everything in it, his book would provide the correct and final answers to all such questions .
To the contrary, the Bible contains some of the most astonishing errors in these disciplines one could imagine.
Let us review some of the more obvious mistakes of Bible science and mathematics. .
1. Genesis 1:1 ~ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. But when? Based on biblical calculations (Theophilus of Antioc; To Autolycus, 169) the earth was created by an act of God 7,500 years ago. However, when measured scientifically (Dalrymple, G. Brent; The Age of the Earth, 1991) by radiometric dating, a family of techniques based on the spontaneous decay of long-lived naturally occurring radio active isotopes, the Earth, the Moon and the meteorites turn out to be between 4.5 and 4.6 billion years old
2. Genesis 1:11-12 ~ And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. Here we have vegetation growing and thriving before there was sunlight.
3. Genesis 3:16 ~ In sorrow (pain) thou shall bring forth children. First, are we to understand that the physical pain associated with normal childbirth is the result solely of this ancient curse? Second, did the virgin Mary have to endure this curse-induced pain in birthing Jesus or did she receive a godly dispensation?
4. Genesis 9 ~ This chapter tells of a covenant wherein God promises never again to flood the entire earth. Because he tended to be somewhat forgetful, God puts a "(rain) bow in the clouds" to remind him of this promise (vs.16). Are we to believe that there were no rainbows before that time as is plainly implied? Did the atmospheric laws of refraction, which have operated for millions of years, suddenly change on that day? Not likely.
5. Genesis 11:9 ~ Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. According to this passage all of the world's languages appeared suddenly in their present form not as the result of the natural ongoing process of growth and development but simply as the result of god's retribution.
6. Genesis 19:26 ~ Lot's wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Are we expected to take this statement literally? Alleged miracles such as this violate the most fundamental laws of science. In fact, miracles are supernatural events and, because they violate natural law, are by definition unscientific .
7. Genesis 30:37-39 ~ Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods. He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks at the watering troughs where the flocks came to breed. Because they bred in front of the rods, the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted offspring. This passage qualifies as pure nonsense. It flies directly in the face of everything we know about modern genetics and how the mechanics of inherited physical characteristics works.
8. Exodus 22:18 ~ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. The Bible writers believed in the existence of witches.
9. Leviticus 11:6 ~ And the hare, because he cheweth the cud.... Hares, like rabbits, are lagomorphs, not ruminants. They do not chew the cud.
10. Leviticus 11:13-19 ~ These are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten , . . . the eagle, and . . . the bat. The bat is not a fowl. It?s a mammal.
11. Leviticus 11:20 ~ All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. There is not now nor has there ever been a 4-legged fowl
12. Leviticus 11:21 ~ These may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap upon the earth. Here we have another absurd reference to four-legged animals that fly.
13. Leviticus 11:22-23 ~ These ye may eat; the locust...and the beetle...and the grasshopper. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. There is no such thing as a 4-legged insect.
14. Deuteronomy 14:7 ~ . . . as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof. Here the Bible writer(s) compound the ?cud? blunder by implying that the hare has hoofs.
15. Deuteronomy 32.11~ As the eagle taketh her young and bearth them on her wings. Eagles have never been known to carry their young on their wings.
16 Joshua 10:13 ~ The sun stood still, and the moon stayed. The sun has always stood still in relation to the earth. The Old Testament writers were obviously laboring under the misconception that the sun, not the earth, was moving in an earth-centered universe.
17. 1st Samuel 2:8 ~ For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them. 1 Chronicles 16:30 ~ He fixed the earth firm and immovable. Psalm 93:1 ~ The world also is established, that it cannot be moved. This erroneous concept of cosmology, that the earth is immovable, rests on pillars and has a foundation, is echoed in several ancient middle eastern religions all of which predate the Old Testament. The Judeo/Christian concept was in all probability copied from them. It is obviously wrong.
18. I Kings 7:23 ~ He then made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely. The constant Pi (π), the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is not a simple 3 as is here stated. While the decimal expansion of π runs to infinity, for practical purposes it is commonly rounded to 3.1416. This same error is repeated in II Chronicles 4:2. It is a known historical fact that both the Egyptians and Babylonians had approximated π to a few decimal places long before the oldest books of the Bible were written.
19. 2nd Kings 5:27 ~ As punishment for his greed, the prophet Elisha announced to his servant Gehazi that, ?The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and into thy seed for ever. And he (Gehazi) went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.? Here we are told in all seriousness that a person can be totally consumed with leprosy at a moments notice simply as a result of a whim of divine judgment.
20. 2nd Kings 20:11 ~ And Isaiah ? brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz. So, the sun not only stopped its normal rotation, it actually went into reverse and rotated backward a full 10 degrees! Here again is proof positive that the Old Testament writers were secure in their belief that the earth is at the center of the universe and all of the heavenly bodies rotate around it. How can anyone take such obvious nonsense seriously?
21. Isaiah 11:12 ~ He shall...gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Perhaps this verse was meant only as a figure of speech because a sphere has no corners.
22 Matthew 13:31-32 ~ Jesus said, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree. The mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds. Others, such as the orchid seed, are smaller. Also, shrubs do not grow into trees
23. Matthew 24:29 ~ Jesus said, . . . the stars will fall from the sky . . . Stars are essentially huge globs of burning hydrogen some of which are many times larger than the earth and millions of light years away. They do not "fall." In addition to being wrong, this stands as another testimonial to the outlandish concept of an earth centered universe.
24. Mark 16:18 ~ Jesus said, They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Many Christians have come to regret ever having taken this verse seriously. However, the supreme irony here is that the last twelve verses of Mark (16:9-20) are a recognized forgery. See "The Long and the Short" in New Testament Forgeries on this web site.
25. Luke 1:44 ~ Elizabeth said to Mary, Lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. Are we to believe that a fetus in the womb can not only hear and understand speech, but comprehend its subtle meanings and implications, and respond appropriately?
26. John 12:24 ~ Jesus said, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. How could something that is dead bring forth anything?
27. James 5:3 ~ Your gold and silver are cankered, and the rust on them shall be witness against you . . . Everyone knows that gold and silver do not rust.
28. 2nd Peter 3:5 ~ For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Just how land is created out of water is never explained.
Several non-extant creatures are referred to throughout the Bible including the cockatrice and the unicorn. Also, the Bible refers to dragons as being real. The Satyr, a hairy, demonic creature with the appearance of a goat, is mentioned in several Bible passages. There remains absolutely no confirming evidence for the existence of any of these creatures.
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