On 12/5/2014 9:56 PM, Samiya Illias wrote:
On 06-Dec-2014, at 10:25 am, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 12/5/2014 3:16 AM, Samiya Illias wrote:
As a person who takes the Quran literally, I'm not at all surprised as it is stated
that the ancients had been given much more, and we haven't been given a tenth of what
they had.
Samiya
Well then you must be surprised that our computers are much faster and more accurate
than the ancients.
That's an assumption
It's much less of an assumption than the assumption that the ancients were given a
superior calculator, since the ankythera device has been reproduced and tested and found
to be less accurate than astronomical calculations by modern digital computers.
So why aren't you surprised that Allah's gift to the ancients is inferior, contrary to the
revelation of the Quran?
Of course we weren't given them; they were invented and built
God grants intelligence and ability to discover and invent to whom He Wills
Then He seems to favor those who do not believe the self-serving rants of Mohammed.
Judging by the list of Nobel prize winners He seems to favor atheists of Jewish descent.
- by atheists and agnostics.
It is up to the individual whether to recognise and appreciate the God-given
intelligence and abilities, or to pretend otherwise.
Or the individual may chose to proportion his belief to the evidence.
Brent
"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an
unctuous merchant in a bazaar...but we have a right to remember how barbarically they
behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."
--- Christopher Hitchens
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