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i'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well.
i hope you feel better soon. what will you be writing about?
The Koranic Speed of Light
A reader sent me a really wonderfully wacko link. It's a fundamentalist islamic site, which tries to use relativity to argue for the divinity of the Koran. It's remarkably silly.
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Islam and Pseudo Science.
Several weeks ago, I found the article about Speed of light and Islam, very interesting. It seems he is a knowledgeable man in physics. But after reading his article I realized his equations (base on his interpretation of Al Quran) and also his calculation content many incorrect physical interpretation.
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Originally posted by Nuupio
The Koranic Speed of Light
A reader sent me a really wonderfully wacko link. It's a fundamentalist islamic site, which tries to use relativity to argue for the divinity of the Koran. It's remarkably silly.
scienceblogs.com...
Their argument is based on the idea that the speed of light can vary in certain accelerated reference frames - and that, therefore, the speed of light is not a fixed quantity based on the speed of light in a vacuum - because the speed of light in a vacuum can vary!


There is no end to the strange things Muslim Fundies will claim. A new one is in A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed Cby Dr. Mansour Hassab-Elnaby. There are hundreds of bogus arguments like this on the web (or at least were when I wrote this). But one need only see how bogus one or two are to see it isn't worth bothering investigating any more (see, for example, my other essay: Cosmology and the Koran: A Response to Muslim Fundamentalists, 2001). I guess this is the shotgun strategy--make so many wild claims that skeptics couldn't possibly rebut them all for shear lack of time, and claim victory. Someone has rebutted the speed of light argument already: see the simple Review by Dr. Arnold Neumaier of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Vienna.

Originally posted by cdi
I was observing orion which was low in the west at about 1 am bst. above orion a ring of light appeared briefly and an object transited and coursed to the south from the centre.
