To athiest - I dont mean harm - can you comment on this?

Question

Religions like Islam and christianity have in their scriptures, scientific facts that scientist have only proven now. These were already theorised in the holy scriptures some thousand years ago. Some scientist have worked backwards (to the scriptures) and went back to the lab.

How is it that you believe scientist so easily?

The quran has already accurately explained the developmment of the human embryo in an absolutely poetic form. It also explains the flow of blood in the heart and the life of the worker bee, etc, etc, etc,

How is it that you dont believe in the word of god?

....................again - no harm intended

.........by the way, I do believe in science because Islam is a highly scientific faith

Answer 1

"The quran has already accurately explained the developmment of the human embryo in an absolutely poetic form"

NONSENSE.

"It also explains the flow of blood in the heart "

NONSENSE.

"the life of the worker bee, etc, etc, etc,"

NONSENSE.

Answer 2

Qualifier: I'm not an atheist, but I do not believe that God is supernatural - I believe God is the natural universe and is natural.

Your claims are at best, inaccurate. The Koran doesn't mention chromosomes, does it? Does it mention mitochondria or telomeres? To say that the Quaran has "accurately described the development of the human embryo" ONLY describes the visible physical development, something that would have been available to the scientist of that time via autopsies of the dead females that happened to be pregnant when they died.

As to the "science" of the Bible, it says that the plants, which require light to live, were created before the light (sun and moon) were created, that the value of pi is 3 instead of 3.14..., that the Earth is flat, and that the Earth is only a few thousand years old. When it comes to science, the Bible is not a reliable source for modern scientific information. Some of what the Bible says is clearly wrong in regards to science, but it was written thousands of years ago when they could not possibly have known what is known now.

Answer 3

The very ancient Egyptian "mythology" — much older than Judaism, Christianity and Islam — contained numerous facts about life, thousands of years before the bible was written. Ancient Egyptians had a good understanding of the human body and performed nearly miraculous surgeries while the rest of the world was praying to thunder gods and sacrificing babies to crocodiles. Egyptians even knew the Earth was a sphere. So how is it you don't believe in Amun?

Answer 4

because those aren't the 'words of god' to an atheist.

I used to be agnostic, that means I believe in god, just not in a form that I've been given by Christianity, or Islam, or even Hebrew. It has given me time to look through different religions, study them from a non biased point of view. I haven't found a Quran that I can read in a store, and I'd rather learn it from a teacher who truly believes in it, but all and all, the words written in those book were put there by human hands. And for all we know, in the future, someone will think yahoo, or eBay, we gods of an extincted culture.

So I ask you, no offense and no harm intended, why do you believe a bunch of papers written by men who were 'proven' to smoke opium and drink hazardous amounts of wine and spirits?

Answer 5

The word takes many forms....
We are not to simply fall into a name...
Your in a bit being sterotypical...
I think that we would have every intention to believe but over the years the church has developed in to a business and swarmed with lies. They fed society will lies to make them believe what they wanted in some cases shaping it to what they wanted.
For me I don't consider myself and athiest rather aganostic... due to people who question me now.
My true beliefs though is thier is a higher power and we chose to believe it b/c how else did we get here.... Religon is man made what you believe and feel is real to you. We were all born with free will and have every right to believe what we want. No matter with all the facts and proof you can't change a apple to an orange..... Even if you surround it with apples....... we chose not to follow everything said out there but rather keep in what we really believe.... Everyone thinks we're Devil Worshippers or something and that highly unlikley b/c that would be considered worshipping someone and then you say we don't believe in GOD... hmmm kind of contradicting..
Well, Good Luck on your answer
Hope everyones opinion enlightens you....
This is mine.... :)

Answer 6

Science is not a new invention, science has been the quest for answers since the inception of man. The fact that there is science in the Bible, Qu'ran, even the Bhagavad Gita comes as no surprise as science existed in the time of those writing.

However religious texts are often speculative and philosophical. Having one a handful of descriptions that we can loosely apply to current knowledge does not justify the text as truth, when you weight them against the many details which we can disprove.

Answer 7

Because your books are open to interpretation, and were written by men and have also been revised several times to accommodate scientific facts, in earlier editions the world was consisdered to be flat, its not that we dont beleive, we just dont beleive those stories and realise that the church relies on weak willed or weak minded people to pay for them to exist, and thats a quote coming from a cardinals mouth, do you realise how weatlthy the church is, the vatican has enough money to end world poverty.

religion was invented for law and order laws that arent relevant anymore, so some of the stories may or may not be true but you will support science when it proves that a man named jesus probably existed but you wont support it when a series of skeletons are found that prove the evolution of our species,

thats why

Answer 8

To say that one is an atheist is not to deny that many things in the Quran, the Bible and other holy books are true. Many of the events have historical backing. You are asking about two different things one is knowledge that one must look for truth and faith which says dont look just beleive.

no harm intended

Answer 9

You have it backwards. There are no scientific claims in either the Bible or Quran that are factual. Poetic descriptions are not scientific, the are poetical and emotional.

Science is a verb, it is something we do. To examine a subject without bias, develop theories, and develop experiments to see if these theories are true. And then to repeat the experiments hundreds of times to see if we can prove it is not true.

If you want to have faith in God, go right ahead, I won't stop you, unless you try to shove your faith down my throat.

I will continue to practice science and leave faith to others.

Answer 10

I don't believe in any of your gods, I follow my own religion that changes daily and only dictates that I live to be the best I can, because I don't have faith in any god I can't see. Until I can see something tangible, I don't believe. There is much about science I question, as much is built off of assumtions, but at least I can see proofs in science without having to believe in it.

Answer 11

Because it is a book that has been passed down soo many times and thousands of years so it isnt even accurate. It doesnt make sense at all to me. I am a realist. Why would I not do things just because a story book figure told me not to? I'm going to live for me, no one else