On 1 June 2014 23:00, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 29-May-2014, at 9:55 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 5/28/2014 10:34 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: >> >> On 29-May-2014, at 10:08 am, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 16:68 "And thy Lord inspired the bee, saying ... eat of all fruits." >> Allah told bees to eat from all fruits, but they decided to eat nectar >> and pollen instead. >> >> I'll have to check in the dictionary if s-m-r means specifically fruit or >> flowering plants. I'll revert later >> >> I checked in Lane's Lexicon [Page 352, Root s m r, 4], the word lends > itself also to the meanings of 'attained the time of bearing fruit', which > I assume is the flowering season, in which pollination occurs leading to > fruit development. > I also checked on the web if there are any studies or reports of honey > bees feeding on fruits, and there are mentions of some sightings of honey > bees feeding on some fruits. However, I would wait for more credible > studies. > > It's a bit of a non issue anyway, since the obvious explanation for that passage is that someone observed what bees do, and "reverse engineered" it into a divine command.
To meet scientific criteria you need a passage that predicts something that hasn't yet been tested, or at least couldn't have been known at the time (and isn't easily explicable through say, the way Arabic assigns genders to objects). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
