Quranic Miracles

[wael's wife]

Bismillah:

With the rabid purveyors of Quaranic “science miracles” especially desperate in their feeble flailing about, I thought that I might render them more docile, massaging the 'gator's belly, if you will, by portraying images of a positive, reassuring attitude defiant of manifest reality.



I <i>do</i> hope the following provides a modicum of solace, however fleeting.


“Mountains as pegs”, “lamps in the Sky”… no wonder the Moslem world is spiraling into the abyss.


I do not doubt that there are as many dozens of arguments for “<i>Mountains as pegs</i>”, “<i>lamps in the Sky</i>”, “<i>the quran as a science text</i>” and similar flights of fancy as there are believers in such nonsense. And to each of them, these arguments (“because I say so”) are sufficient. To claim that the arguments are logical as well is to grasp beyond the reach of logic.


Logic is a man-made construct. It has rules, provability axioms, and most essential to my argument, an incompleteness proven by Godel in the 1930s: In any logical system beyond the first order, it is possible to construct “undecidable” propositions. The existence of “<i>Mountains as pegs</i>”, “<i>lamps in the Sky</i>”, “<i>quran as a science text</i>” is not supportable or rational, except in the mind of the zealot.


While I'm sure there are many interpretations which will square your notion of the Quran with science, it is, if taken literally, absurd. I do not seek spiritual enlightenment in Darwin's "<i>Origin of Species</i>." Nor do I seek observation, hypothesis and experiment in quran. You do. I'm happy for you.

what are you talking about???


The fact that mountains have deep downward extensions below the ground surface and that their main role is to stabilize the Earth as a planet, and its outer rocky cover (particularly that which constitutes continental plates) have only been discerned by specialists very recently, although scientist have pondered about the possibility of mountains having roots as early as the second half of the nineteenth century. However, the process of formation of such downward extensions as well as their role in halting the sudden, jerky movements of the planet and of its lithospheric plates have only begun to be understood in the framework of modern astronomy and the very recent concept of plate tectonics (late 1960's and early 1970's). What you are saying is very very old information and mostly taken from Anti Islamic websites who are just trying hard to prove that the Qur’an is wrong but they’ve failed miserably. Alhamdulelah.

Isostasy explains the vertical distribution of Earth's crust. George Bedell Airy proposed that the density of the crust is everywhere the same and the thickness of crustal material varies. Higher mountains are compensated by deeper roots. This explains the high elevations of most major mountain chains, such as the Himalayas. G H Pratt hypothesized that the density of the crust varies, allowing the base of the crust to be the same everywhere. Sections of crust with high mountains, therefore, would be less dense than sections of crust where there are lowlands. This applies to instances where density varies, such as the difference between continental and oceanic crust.
(Image © Research Machines plc)

May I suggest you find enlightenment in the "Flat Earth Society".

expected statement from people of ignorance.


Salam


<b>Wael</b>/ USING MY WIFE ACCOUNT BY MISTAKE. :D