Saudi religious figure's important announcement that the earth is not revolving

[Kyriakos]

The saudi imam, sheikh bandar al khaibari claims that the theory of revolving earth is false
and he proves: "if the earth was revolving, china would get closer in time to a plane standing still in the sky. or if the earth was revolving to the other way the plane would never reach china"

Link to video.

And a funny one-liner there:

Life is tough without Greek science isn't it Ummah?

The arab nations did use Greek math/astronomy and philosophy, and it flourished there, up until some Abbasid development and the treatise titled: 'The incomprehensibility of the philosophers'. Borges noted how delicious the pun-titled response of Averroes (islamic scholar in Cordoba) was to that backwardness ('The Incomprehensibility of the Incomprehensibility').

Sadly Islam moved to religious thinking and ended its golden math/astronomy age

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What do you think of this cool hybrid religion-science which already brings us to face huge chasms in the established theories? ^^

 

[warpus]

if the earth was revolving, china would get closer in time to a plane standing still in the sky. or if the earth was revolving to the other way the plane would never reach china"

Omg, I did not think of that, this guy just blew my mind.

Next show us how the earth is 6,000 years old and rests on a series of camels.

 

[Ajidica]

Next show us how the earth is 6,000 years old and rests on a series of camels.

Heretic.
Everybody knows the earth rests on four elephants standing on the back of a turtle.

 

[classical_hero]

Sadly Islam moved to religious thinking and ended its golden math/astronomy age

The only reason "Islam" had a scientific age is because of the places it conquered. After it couldn't conquer any more lands, so there was no organic growth of science, which i unlike the Christian West after the Reformation and Renaissance.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Saudis hear these guys and roll their eyes.

(Camels? Camels all the way down?)

 

[Ajidica]

The only reason "Islam" had a scientific age is because of the places it conquered. After it couldn't conquer any more lands, so there was no organic growth of science, which i unlike the Christian West after the Reformation and Renaissance.

What is this I don't even.....

 

[Borachio]

Doesn't this anti-scientific stance of Islam date back to one guy? I can't remember his name, but before him Islamic and Arabic scientists and mathematicians came up with all sorts of innovations. Like algebra; and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and what's the other one?

And algorithms. Or is that some American politician with a musical sense?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Indians developed Arabic numerals, Borachio. The Arabs just spread them and popularized them.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It is possible to calculate all motion in the solar system based on the Earth being stationary. The calculation is far more complex, and there is no particular application for it, but it can be done. As in most things it is just a matter of choosing a point of reference. No surprise that a Muslim might pick Mecca as that point. I usually choose Palmdale myself, but that's just me.

 

[Borachio]

But then the Indians got the idea from the Babylonians. Who lived where exactly? Wasn't it Mesopotamia? (But obviously they had nothing to do with Islam.)

Still, I don't say you're wrong, Mr Yoyo. Just a little pedantic, maybe.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as "Arabic numerals" in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabic-speakers of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco. Arabs, on the other hand, call the system "Hindu numerals",[19][20] referring to their origin in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

I wish I could remember the Arab guy's name, though. I feel he should be made to carry the can more for all this Islamic scientiphobia. "It was him wot done it."

How many Nobel prize winners have come from the Islamic world?

 

[Kyriakos]

Omg, I did not think of that, this guy just blew my mind.

Next show us how the earth is 6,000 years old and rests on a series of camels.

Although TBF:

On the surface it may seem that this Imam is merely rumbling. However consider the possibility of a plane in the sky using a field canceling gravity pull/satellite draw from the earth. Such a field can happen in way of alien tech, hidden phenomena having to do with limits to infinity not studied in math, or just Allah who is Great.

So while at first this imam sounds just strange, later on he may be revealed to have actual work on his theories. And such work can be put to great use, eg in psychiatry of complete and bounded fallacies.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

This guy knows that human beings have actually been in space right? And that they never could have gotten back to Earth if we did the calculations wrong? Or is space travel a lie spread by the West?

I don't even know why I'm responding to this, the guy is obviously insane. Nothing to see here.

How many Nobel prize winners have come from the Islamic world?

2 if we're only counting the science ones, which are the only ones relevant to this topic.

 

[Kyriakos]

But then the Indians got the idea from the Babylonians. Who lived where exactly? Wasn't it Mesopotamia? (But obviously they had nothing to do with Islam.)

Still, I don't say you're wrong, Mr Yoyo. Just a little pedantic, maybe.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

I wish I could remember the Arab guy's name, though. I feel he should be made to carry the can more for all this Islamic scientiphobia. "It was him wot done it."

How many Nobel prize winners have come from the Islamic world?

I alluded to that anti-math/philosophy arab scholar in the OP. Ibn something iirc. His treatise was termed 'The incomprehensibility of the Philosophers', and is argued to have been a catalyst for Islam moving away from math/science/philosophy, and more into religion in such subjects too.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

<nvm>

 

[El_Machinae]

But then the Indians got the idea from the Babylonians. Who lived where exactly? Wasn't it Mesopotamia? (But obviously they had nothing to do with Islam.)

Still, I don't say you're wrong, Mr Yoyo. Just a little pedantic, maybe.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

I wish I could remember the Arab guy's name, though. I feel he should be made to carry the can more for all this Islamic scientiphobia. "It was him wot done it."

How many Nobel prize winners have come from the Islamic world?

You're thinking of this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali

The Islamic Dark Ages followed him. Christianity has the Renaissance behind us when its second anti-intellectual movement started, so it's been mostly neutered.

 

[Borachio]

Ah, thanks. Him the fella.

Anti-intellectualism is such a strange phenomenon, isn't it? What's the explanation for it? It's like people not wanting to learn new things. Well, maybe it is people not wanting to learn new things.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

How can a guy with glasses be that stupid?

 

[Farm Boy]

They're cosmetic. If they actually bent light then it would never be able to reach his eyes.

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

I can't actually see anything wrong with this clip. I think he's right. If the plane stayed in one place while the earth rotated away from it, it wouldn't ever reach China.

No one with a beard has ever been known to tell lies. It's physically impossible for them to do so. The beard naturally rotates away from all lies. Everyone knows this.

 

[Kyriakos]

They're cosmetic. If they actually bent light then it would never be able to reach his eyes.

Another effect of the lack of revolving earth