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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Does religion contradict science? I don't think so.

Time and again the same arguement arises between me and my friend, religion and science cannot co-exist peacefully. The 21st century, he claimed, should be an age of reason and religion should be forgotten by mankind. He claimed God is just an entity that humans created. Well thanks to an awesome website, I have evidence to show that science and religion do not contradict each other. In fact, my evidence shows that God does exist. All based on the Quran.

Proof #1.
"He rules the cosmic affair from the heavens to the earth. The affair travels to him a distance in one day, 1000 years of what you count." - the Quran.

Muslims believe that angels are servants of God and therefore, sends this 'cosmic affair' to God as part of their service to him. Prophet Muhammad stated that 'the angels were made out of light'. Thus, the cosmic affair travels at the speed of light. In order to test out whether this claim is true, we have to calculate the speed at which the cosmic affair travels.

Speed of cosmic affair = distance of 1000yrs of what you count / 1 earth day.

Arabs use the lunar calendar and hence 1000 yrs of what you count can be inferred as the dist. that the moon travelled in 1000 lunar years.

And indeed, with very complex and in depth calculation, this cosmic affair travels almost at the speed of light.

The speed of light is not a nice whole number. The standard speed of light is 299 792 458 m/s. the Quran managed to redefine the speed of light in simpler terms: (distance travelled by the moon in 12000 lunar months)/1 earth day.

Atheist's point of view: Muhammad made up the entire Quran with his close friends.

Fact:Prophet Muhammad is illiterate. Absolutely no one at the age at which Prophet Muhammad lives could figure out the speed of light and redefine it in simpler terms.

Conclusion: He was truly the messenger of god.

Proof #2
" The angels ascend to him in a day, a measure of which is a thousand years".-The Quran

Since angels are made up of light, it is logical to think that they can travel at speeds from 0m/s up to the speed of light. If this is the case, then time dilation must occur if the angel travels at high speeds. Indeed, the Quran states that 1 day relative to the angel is equivalent to 50 000 years measured by a stationary observer(in this case humans).

Atheist's point of view: Angels don't exist and this is all bullshit.

Fact: Travelling at relativistic speeds results in time dilation. How the heck could people who lived Muhammad's time figure out that angels travel at enormous speeds and that time passes slowly for fast moving objects?

Conclusion: No one could have made this up. This cannot be a coincidence. The quran is God's work.

Proof #3
"And the heaven and the knocker. How could you know about the knocker? The piercing star"-The Quran

Based on this quote,

the Knocker = The piercing star.

Based on modern science,

Neutron stars are remnants of exploded stars. They emit radio waves. Pulsars can be detected and heard by connecting a radio telscope to a loud speaker and they sound exactly like someone 'knocking' persistently. Neutron stars may eventually form black holes as its mass increases. Black holes is a region in spacetime where the gravitational pull is so intense that not even light can escape it. It is like a deep puncture in spacetime.

Thus, based on modern science,

Neutrons stars(emits radio waves) => Pierces spacetime.

Comparing it with the Quran's quote,

Neutron stars = Knockers

Atheist's point of view : This is all made up and cannot be believed.

Fact: Neutron stars emit radio waves, which causes knocking sounds when detected. Neutron stars also create deep punctures in the fabric of spacetime. Nobody in Muhammad's time would have known that neutron stars will cause deep punctures in spacetime.

Conclusion: God uses the Quran to tell us about this piercing star. This piercing star has been discovered by modern science and is now named a neutron star.

Proof #4
"Allah is the one who created the seven superimposed heavens. You do not see variations in the creations of the Compassionate, so redirect you sight, do you see any creation? Then redirect your sight again, your vision returns to you in defeat and regret."

Sight => Light

In this quote Allah claims that in his heavens, there are certain 'creations' that cannot be seen by humans. Today, it is discovered that indeed there are creations that cannot be detected by light: Dark Matter. Dark Matter cannot be seen directly but can be detected by gravitational lensing. Dark Matter warps spacetime just matter. Warps and curves in spacetime cause light to bend. In this quote Allah, for a reason, told us to "redirect our sight", implying that our sight is bent. Light is bent.

Atheist's point of view: There is no God and this is pure nonsense. The inference is merely coincidental with the findings in astrophysics.

Fact: There is a type of matter that cannot be detected by electromagnetic radiation, dark matter. Dark matter bends light.

Conclusion: God is telling us about dark matter and tells us to redirect our sight when we detect them because our sight has been bent.

Proof #5
"we sent down Iron, in it lies great might"

During Prophet Muhammad's time, Iron was not the best choice of material for weapons as it can easily rust and bent. So why did the quran say that iron had great strength? The secret lies in the nucleus of the iron atom. We now know that the nucleus of the iron atom is the strongest among all elements.

Epic conclusion: There is a God. The Quran supports modern science.

All credits to http://www.speed-light.info/

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