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Post by fretslider on Feb 18, 2015 8:30:26 GMT -5
A Saudi cleric has publicly claimed that the Earth is a static object which is orbited by the sun, adding that centuries of evidence to the contrary is little more than fabrication. Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari is believed to have been speaking at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates when a student asked him whether the Earth rotates or is stationary. The Islamic scholar quickly replies 'stationary and does not move', before launching into a long-winded and confusing explanation that appears to the suggest that if the Earth was moving, airliners would never be able to reach their destination. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957414/Saudi-cleric-online-laughing-stock-telling-student-sun-rotates-Earth-planes-not-able-fly.html#ixzz3S6QzxGTF Wow. |
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Post by mouse on Feb 18, 2015 9:26:02 GMT -5
A Saudi cleric has publicly claimed that the Earth is a static object which is orbited by the sun, adding that centuries of evidence to the contrary is little more than fabrication. Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari is believed to have been speaking at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates when a student asked him whether the Earth rotates or is stationary. The Islamic scholar quickly replies 'stationary and does not move', before launching into a long-winded and confusing explanation that appears to the suggest that if the Earth was moving, airliners would never be able to reach their destination. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957414/Saudi-cleric-online-laughing-stock-telling-student-sun-rotates-Earth-planes-not-able-fly.html#ixzz3S6QzxGTF Wow. wow indeed...but then the kran has answers to all things...the kran says the monn set or is it rises from a muddy pool and that mountains are the pegs which hold the lands down...it also talks of donkeys flying to heaven with mohammed on its back... this man however is lecturing at a university..which is some what worrying buit indicative of a state which has to import electricians....nearly as worrying as the fact some of our universities have to have remedial classes in reading and writing and imports waiters one could ask what happened to higher education....to seats of learning... Gallilao look on these things and weep... |
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Post by beth on Feb 18, 2015 10:17:19 GMT -5
A Saudi cleric has publicly claimed that the Earth is a static object which is orbited by the sun, adding that centuries of evidence to the contrary is little more than fabrication. Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari is believed to have been speaking at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates when a student asked him whether the Earth rotates or is stationary. The Islamic scholar quickly replies 'stationary and does not move', before launching into a long-winded and confusing explanation that appears to the suggest that if the Earth was moving, airliners would never be able to reach their destination. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957414/Saudi-cleric-online-laughing-stock-telling-student-sun-rotates-Earth-planes-not-able-fly.html#ixzz3S6QzxGTF Wow. I wonder why the student asked him. If it had been here, it would have been obvious it was a send-up. It being there ... it's hard to know. |
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Post by men an tol on Feb 18, 2015 12:10:52 GMT -5
I suspect that the Saudi cleric was quite sincere in his stated beliefs. Beyond the sad reality of his lack of knowledge is the fact that it is this type of mentality that some people want to negotiate some type of peace. This attitude cannot be negotiated with as they have a singular point of view that will never change.
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Post by fretslider on Feb 18, 2015 17:07:31 GMT -5
After telling the student that the Earth does not rotate, Sheikh al-Khaibari attempts to back up his argument with religious statements and quotes from other Islamic clerics.
If you ever wondered why Islam contributes nothing to human progress...
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Post by mouse on Feb 19, 2015 3:47:59 GMT -5
"""If you ever wondered why Islam contributes nothing to human progress..."""
because they believe that a 7th century book compiled from bits of information on stones..animal skin..wood..hearsay etc etc contains all knowledge and instruction that is needed by humans
YET at the same time they do not live with this knowledge do not bind their lives with this knowledge which makes them rather hyporcritical.....
as this cleric will be one of the many denying science and scientific advancement...just why is he wearing machine made robes of machine made cloths
glasses made with materials that are machine made to suit his eye sight ..the quality deemed necessary by science
and using a carefully crafted sound system
and a beard carefully trimed by modern shaving methods
and what would the Saudi do without science giving them endless monies via the black gold from beneath the earth...brought up by the latest technologies and scientific expertise
these people are not roofed...every thing they do and say is a contradiction of their beliefes that the Koran is the answer to every thing
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