hello lotofkamino., ask your roommate and those fools at ummah.com to read this article from today's news paper
Faith and folly by Irfan Husain., let me add some nuggets from that
`CURIOUS to a fault, I follow scientific developments and discoveries with interest. In particular, recent advances in astrophysics and quantum phenomena fascinate me.
These inquiries into the birth of the universe and what it is composed of are at the very forefront of research. So when the elusive Higgs Boson was finally nailed down after years at the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, I was thrilled at the breakthrough. ...................
Science is moribund in the Muslim world.
The list of scientific breakthroughs and advances goes on as governments, universities and corporations spend billions in laboratories and research facilities around the world. Everywhere, that is, apart from Muslim countries.
Here, Dubai has built the world’s highest building, and is planning the largest shopping mall. This, it seems, is the sum total of our achievements. Even Muslim states that do not have the excuse of poverty spend their undeserved oil wealth in importing luxury goods, and weapons from the West to suppress their own populations.
Last year, I was invited to speak at the American University at Sharjah, and was impressed by the campus and facilities. Bright young students asked me interesting questions, and a senior faculty member
showed me around. But the entire teaching staff were foreigners.It would appear that whatever passes for intellectual inquiry in the Muslim world is limited to determining who is a believer and who is not.
The next stage is to determine what should be done with those deemed to be non-Muslims. Mostly, this line of inquiry starts and ends with some form of the death penalty......When Richard Dawkins tweeted that only two Muslims had won the Nobel Prize for science, there was a storm of protest. (Actually, make that one as many Muslims do not accept Professor Abdus Salam as a believer). The truth is that the only meaningful research being carried out by Muslim scientists is outside their countries, mostly in Western universities and laboratories.....
A fundamental problem is that theoretical research is posited on the premise that there are things out there that we do not know and understand.
As one theory is proved through empirical research, another is cast aside as invalid. This is how science progresses.
......... our focus is on the theological and political differences tearing the Muslim world apart. Shias and Sunnis are at each other’s throats across the Middle East. In Pakistan, Deobandis slug it out with Barelvis......................
Long before the current bout of bloodletting, science in the Muslim world has been moribund for centuries. Indeed, our refusal to accept and internalise modern education based on reason is the cause of our decline. The West, meanwhile, rode the crest of the industrial revolution and went on to conquer much of the world.
Groups like Boko Haram, as well as the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, deplore what they call Western education, and regularly kill students and destroy schools. They are too ignorant to understand that nobody owns reason and rationality. But they do grasp that in a world where scientific education is available to all, they would be irrelevant and impotent.
The last 15 years have witnessed a widening of the gulf between the Muslim world and most of the rest of mankind. Increasingly, we are viewed as violent, backward people. This perception — often exaggerated — has led to increasing Islamophobia, particularly in the West.
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That is level of science we have in so-called Islamic world., ask them to read that article and join this forum. . and what is this nonsense
"Process of Fertilisation in the Quran"??
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YUSUFALI: He created you (all) from a single person: then created, of like nature, his mate; and he sent down for you eight head of cattle in pairs: He makes you, in the wombs of your mothers, in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness. such is Allah, your Lord and Cherisher: to Him belongs (all) dominion. There is no god but He: then how are ye turned away (from your true Centre)?
PICKTHAL: He created you from one being, then from that (being) He made its mate; and He hath provided for you of cattle eight kinds. He created you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in a threefold gloom. Such is Allah, your Lord. His is the Sovereignty. There is no Allah save Him. How then are ye turned away?
SHAKIR: He has created you from a single being, then made its mate of the same (kind), and He has made for you eight of the cattle in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers-- a creation after a creation-- in triple darkness; that is Allah your Lord, His is the kingdom; there is no god but He; whence are you then turned away?
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YUSUFALI: Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)?
PICKTHAL: Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth?
SHAKIR: Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements,
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YUSUFALI: Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight.
PICKTHAL: Lo! We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing.
SHAKIR: Surely We have created man from a small life-germ uniting (itself): We mean to try him, so We have made him hearing, seeing.
Those verse tells us modern reproductive biology? Such fools who consider some modern science is there in these religious books must go back to high school and start fresh.. These silly books are books of their time. people had very limited knowledge in sciences.,
Topic: Process of Fertilisation in the Quran