June Issue Of Discover Magazine

[qayak]

The company I work for subscribes to several magazines for the customer waiting room. One of them happens to be Discover and because we are in the centre of the "Bible Belt," it never gets read, so I take it each month. I usually wait until the end of the month when the new one comes in and I take the old one but June's issue has a great article entitled "Science and Islam."

"All over the world, no matter what the culture or language differences, science is more or less guided by scientific principles. Except in Islamic countries, where it is guided by the Koran. This is the ultimate story about science and religion."

Some memorable quotes from "Islamic Scientists" as they call themselves:

"Nobody can just write what he thinks without proof. But we have real proof that the story of Adam as the first man is true."

"All the wealth of knowledge in the world has actually emanated from Muslim civilization."

"If you are asking if Adam came from a monkey, no. Man did not come from a monkey. If I am religious, if I agree with Islam, then I have to respect all the ideas of Islam. And one of those ideas is the creation of the human from Adam and Eve. If I am a scientist, I have to believe that."

Anybody read it yet?

[tsig]

The company I work for subscribes to several magazines for the customer waiting room. One of them happens to be Discover and because we are in the centre of the "Bible Belt," it never gets read, so I take it each month. I usually wait until the end of the month when the new one comes in and I take the old one but June's issue has a great article entitled "Science and Islam."

"All over the world, no matter what the culture or language differences, science is more or less guided by scientific principles. Except in Islamic countries, where it is guided by the Koran. This is the ultimate story about science and religion."

Some memorable quotes from "Islamic Scientists" as they call themselves:

"Nobody can just write what he thinks without proof. But we have real proof that the story of Adam as the first man is true."

"All the wealth of knowledge in the world has actually emanated from Muslim civilization."

"If you are asking if Adam came from a monkey, no. Man did not come from a monkey. If I am religious, if I agree with Islam, then I have to respect all the ideas of Islam. And one of those ideas is the creation of the human from Adam and Eve. If I am a scientist, I have to believe that."

Anybody read it yet?

Yep

Seems as though they really would like to go back about 700 years so that pesky science would go away.

[PixyMisa]

Except that 700 years ago there was actually science being done in the Islamic world.

[Beerina]

"If you are asking if Adam came from a monkey, no. Man did not come from a monkey. If I am religious, if I agree with Islam, then I have to respect all the ideas of Islam. And one of those ideas is the creation of the human from Adam and Eve. If I am a scientist, I have to believe that."

I hope that after the Techno-Rapture, the transcendent post-Omega entities resurrect every human who ever lived, then we have a good old time mocking stuff like this. Like put this guy's face up on a 70,000-mile high Jumbotron, then read his words back and we watch his face go red.