04-18-2006, 02:05 AM
The "logic" of of Adnan Ahmad's argument is incredibly bad.
He first asks the question: how far does light travel in 50,000 years?
He comes up with a value of 293,284,800,000,000,000 miles.
He then asks, how long does it take light to travel 293,284,800,000,000,000 miles?
His answer, not surprisingly, is 50,000 years (since we are doing the same calculation in reverse).
From this, he concludes that <b>"therefore it is a fact that it takes 50000 light years for the angels and the spirit to ascend to Allah"</b>
Nonsense.
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If you liked Adnan Ahmad's proof, then you'll love the following one:
Using the koran to calculate the speed of light.
where a Muslim "proves" that the koran can be used to calculate that the speed of light is 299792.5 km/s, a difference of only 0.042 km/sec from the true value of 299792.458 km/sec.
His logic is also flawed, but the fact he throws in a bunch of equations and diagrams tends to fool people into thinking the calculation is correct (everything he says is more or less true, until he introduces the mathematical quantity "cos theta"; there is no mathematical reason to introduce that quantity, other than to make the calculation come out to the right value).