11-20-2006, 11:15 PM
Quote:Bismillah:
Yes I did copy and paste those quotes from the internet, not to validate my beliefs, Alhamdulelah Islam doesn’t need my help. Anyway, the quotes are recoded on video tapes and you can watch them by yourself. Let me know if they are not ‘original source’
Scientists testimonies about the Qur’an, Muhammad pbuh and Islam.
Will you be surprised to discover that I’m not terribly impressed with your posting a half dozen “scientific testimonials”? I understand what you’re attempting to achieve by doing so but do you realize how weak your argument is?
Kindly supply links to the peer reviewed literature your sources have submitted to their academic peers. Let’s see just how authoritative your sources are.
Reasoned arguments come from those who spend their time studying the issues.
There is a standard debunked creationist/theistic claim that scientists reject evolution and support creationism
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Of the 480,000 scientists in the earth and life sciences, only 700 consider "creation-science" a valid theory. Yup, that means 99.85 percent of researchers in biology and the life sciences support the theory of evolution. That's just in the US. In the rest of the developed world, it's more than 99.9 percent.
Quote:Actually we don’t care much about ‘arrogant atheist’s opinion concerning religion.
Salam
Wael.
"<i>Actually we don’t care much</i>..." Congratulations on your job promotion as spokesman for all muslims.
Actually, you’re behaving like a teenage drama queen. This is a message board, kiddo. People are going to react to the material you post and critique those postings.
The entire god question is a pretty important one I'd say. For me, it's not something to just roll over and believe because if you truly dig deep into what allows you to believe, you will find there is no clear reason to believe as you do-- the differing paradigms out there do not make a single case that rises above the others. In other words, there is no reason to believe Christianity over Islam over Buddhism over Judaism over Hinduism.
Let’s be honest, in all likelihood, your are a muslim simply because that is the majority belief system you grew up in.
People chose what their theistic beliefs are for many reasons, but rarely do they apply very hard standards to those reasons. They tend to be cultural (i.e., you grew up in a social environment that preferred one belief over another), or anecdotal (you believe in certain events that for you define a specific belief, like a Hindu may have examples of "reincarnation" whereas a Catholic will "see visions of Mary", etc.), or there is simply a resonance in the belief system you select. And of course, I'll even include the possibility (but not probability) that one selects a belief because they actually do hear directly from the Supreme Being.
But none of them make the absolute case of authority -- hence, I select the default position of atheism until such time as there is a clear defining reason to select one over the other. Your religious views are of no more authority than the beliefs of any other.