Sunday, December 11, 2011

Birds Fly Because of Bernoulli not God

This is a rather obvious atheist argument.
Qur'an says that God keeps birds in the air but today we know that it is because of Bernoulli theory of air flow. Hence Qur'an is wrong and there is no God.
Now even Shakespeare will agree if we say that the name Bernoulli is immaterial here. It could have been Newton, Faraday or even Darwin. So basically the argument essentially is whether the flight or suspension of the birds and their navigation is because of God or flow of air. To any reasonable person the argument has become a weak one already. Reason is that anybody now will be prompted to ask whether the two things are necessarily antagonistic. Of course the Islamic answer is no. These two things are fully reconcilable.

The trouble is that last few hundred years of science have developed in the western society. To get a an accurate picture of reality one must not ignore the social, cultural and religious milieu of Europe-the place where modern science found tutelage - America took over only after the crop was ready. The obvious fact that has bearing upon science in that geographical location is the fact that because of the atrocities of the Roman Catholic Church, the things for which the Church is slowly and now and then is apologizing, there is great antagonism towards organized religion, namely, Church, namely, the Roman Catholic Church. So the revolutionary European mindset showed the Church its place - a place separated from every other matter including governance, economy, social life and science. This is the legacy that Europe carries till today and they expect other too carry forward their burden. And just like their Church now they implement their new Roman Catholicism called secularism or democracy by any means that are at their disposal. Unfortunately for the rest of the world the resources at their disposal are massive. And till now they new how to use these resources to control others resources-a sort of success succeeding like success. With current financial fluidity in Europe (and America) should give the rest of the world a breathing space. And thus now is the time to rescue science from the reactive, as in reaction to Roman Catholic Church, European (borrowed by America) ethos.