2006-11-10 11:04:19 · 20 answers · asked by I want to delete my answers account 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's really not a good idea to debate the scientific validity of documents whose veracity rests in the faith of the people that follow them. Sure, one can study scripture and search for truths, be they spiritual, moral, historical or otherwise but no one should ever mistake them for formal scientific communications from Divinity to humanity. If one examines the scriptures, a lot of the explanatory stories and ideas are based on mythos, allegory and conjecture of the writers and the writers' cultural background. Both the Qur'an and the Old Testament must be read in the context of their land and time of origin, the premodern Middle East and the Semitic peoples that formulated and codified them. The New Testament was borne of an ancient Semitic religion into one that was struggling for survival and legitimacy in the Roman Mediterranean world. These documents were never meant to provide scientific truths but were created to transmit culture, traditions and provide answers, or at least bases of thought, for spiritual, philosophical and moral questions. To believe these documents provide science is to miss their cultural elegance. To list the scientific mistakes in the Bible or the Qur'an or any other scripture would be folly as the "scientific truths" that people would believe are contained were never borne of the scientific process (observe, question and predict such that questions and predictions can be answered in a controlled, cause and effect manner, answer the questions and predictions through experimentation, revise observations and predictions, repeat the whole process). If one reads these documents for science, the point of reading them is missed. If you're one of the faithful, or the faithless trying to gain faith, these documents will provide answers but not of the scientific kind. If these documents are read for more pragmatic and scientific reasons (not to learn about science but to apply them to science, as in cultural anthropology, sociology, history, etc), one can gain insights about the historical context in which they were written, the culture and belief systems of their authors and those that follow these scriptures. However, no one should ever believe these documents provide for scientific accuracy.
2006-11-10 11:40:53 · answer #1 · answered by swamijie1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These books don't mention science. The ancient people who wrote the Bible thought that the Earth was flat. Unfortunately, our God concept came from ignorant people. Mistakes in the Bible (word of God)? I'll give you one of many. Noah and the Arc. Two of every species of living thing on this planet weighs at least 50 million tons. Noah would have needed an Arc a mile long. And to gather the 100 million different species of insects alone, Noah would have to go to the Amazon Rain Forest to gather many of them, let alone distinguish the males from the females. For mistakes in the Koran read the works of Salman Rushde.
2006-11-10 19:22:52 · answer #2 · answered by The professor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The foremost mistake is the claim of the Bible and Koran that there is a supreme being (God). There is no scientific basis to this claim.
2006-11-10 21:30:37 · answer #3 · answered by dream reality 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no science in the bible, just stories and people trying to understand the world around them. therefore, there are no scientific mistakes. As for the koran, however, did not mohammed say he split the moon in half , a scientifical impossibility
2006-11-10 19:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
People say certain things are immpossible, and therefore not true. Seas and rivers don't part, The sick and lame aren't healed, the dead aren't raised. I agree! These are immpossible, but they happened! It's called a miracle! If you believe the first words of the Bible, "in the bginning God created...", nothing else is a peoblem.
2006-11-10 19:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by edward_lmb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a mistake to look at these books as scientific works or as math books (although fundamentalists tend to interpret them in a literal way).
2006-11-10 19:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by Yuri 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Some things that are recorded in the Bible are impossible: a worldly flood, parting the Red Sea, turning water into wine, making the lame walk, the blind see, raising from death to life !! Man, science can't do these things but God can and did. Have God. Have FAITH...
2006-11-10 19:11:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What, God made scientific errors? Oh man, well that just changes everything. What'd He do, put the sun in the wrong place or something? Scientific mistakes? Now that's a good question.
2006-11-10 19:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by Red neck 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Moses moved 2 million people to the promised land. Although there are thousands of documents from that time and place, nobody bothered to mention it. It's kinda like it never happened
2006-11-10 19:14:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
creation happened in 6 days. Some guys lived for hundreds of years. There is plenty of stuff. Noah's ark story is pretty hard to believe.
2006-11-10 19:07:29 · answer #10 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋