AW: [thechat] King Preaches Abstinence to Parading Maidens

[Martin Burns]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Eike Pierstorff wrote:

> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Syed, the Koran/Quran is NOT a science manual lol!  If it is,
> > it's a very
> > > very bad one!
> >
> > Sorry William, I just confused the meanings of "dense" with "thin". I have
> > already confessed about my mistake.
> > Quran is really not a science book but Quran tells us scientific
> > facts to make
> > us believe.
>
>
> The word "scientific" seems to be the offender here, but I guess one would
> have to agree that religious rules are often based upon observation of
> nature - like "You shall not eat an animal that will give you instant
> trichinosis" or "You shall cover your body or else you'll get a sunburn in
> the Saharah desert".

Yup - having read the Old Testament books of laws, I have to say that
they're a pretty reasonable public health manual for that environment and
level of technology.

Cheers
Martin

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