This thread remember me the discussions of the dumbest of a city disussing the relative merits of each basket team player based on if they are redhead or not.
2014-12-06 10:37 GMT+01:00 LizR <lizj...@gmail.com>: > On 6 December 2014 at 19:25, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 06-Dec-2014, at 11:15 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> On 12/5/2014 9:56 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: >> >> >> >> On 06-Dec-2014, at 10:25 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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? >> >> Look at all the ruins of the ancient civilizations - you think they were >> inferior? >> > > That's a curious question. The ruins and record indicate that there was no > ancient civilisation that had anything like the knowledge or resources of > modern day technology. For example, no ancient civilisation discovered the > use of fossil fuels or nuclear power. One could argue that these things > aren't in fact good for modern civilisation, but since we don't know how > things will work out that would be presumptuous. However, we can almost > certainly say that no civilisation prior to ours measured the age of the > universe to an accuracy of around 1%, or discovered DNA, or was able to > prolong life through medicine and surgery, or could cure mental conditions > through the use of synthetic drugs, or construct buildings a kilometer > high, or fly, or explore the Moon and planets, or discovered the nature of > matter, or invented recorded sound, images and TV and films, or intelligent > machines, or reliable contraception, or machines able to free the > population from everyday household drudgery, or the ability to feed > billions of people, or have lights and heat available at night and all the > year round, or send messages almost instantly around the world... > > (...how long have you got?) > > The fact is, all but the poorest people in the Western world has things > that would have been unimaginable to the richest people of the ancient > world. I would say that this does make our civilisation superior in > important ways; I would certain prefer to be alive now than even 100 years > ago. Indeed 100 years ago the routine gall bladder surgery I had a couple > of years ago would have probably killed me (always assuming I'd survived > childhood illnesses, childbirth and so on). > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
