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Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth
INN ^ | 2/17/2015, 10:36 AM | Tova Dvorin

Posted on 02/17/2015 2:43:13 PM PST by Olog-hai

The sun revolves around the Earth, a Saudi cleric insisted to a student panel Sunday—prompting a social media storm.

Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari told a student that the Earth is “stationary and does not move,” according to Al-Arabiya, justifying the statement with religious texts and statements.

But then he tried to debunk the common knowledge about the Earth’s rotation using “logic,” in a visual demonstration that prompted the speech to go viral.

“First of all, where are we now?” he asked. “We go to Sharjah airport to travel to China by plane, clear?!”

Khaibari argued, confusingly, that the Earth cannot rotate because it would render air travel impossible. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: galileo; geocentrism; rop; saudiarabia
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To: Olog-hai
the plane would never reach China because China is also rotating

I've almost choked on some peanuts when I read this.

21 posted on 02/17/2015 2:55:56 PM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: ought-six
He’s not a toker. He went for the acid.

I'm guessing he's eating mushrooms growing on camel dung and eating the dung to get the mushroom taste out of his mouth.
22 posted on 02/17/2015 2:56:09 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

About 700 mph at your place. Be careful.


23 posted on 02/17/2015 2:56:10 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

And a few years back, another Saudi cleric declared the world to be flat!
http://www.islam-watch.org/authors/143-roddy/849-flat-earth-and-other-crazy-ideas-of-modern-islamists.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.skeptic/GezpStZsVr8

And the Sun sets in a muddy pool somewhere is West North Africa. So says the Koran.
http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/cornelius/sun_in_muddy_pool.html


24 posted on 02/17/2015 2:56:24 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Paladin2

Yeah we have to be very careful here in the wooded lands.


25 posted on 02/17/2015 2:57:13 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Olog-hai

As long as he didn’t say anything denying global climate change, he’s ok.


26 posted on 02/17/2015 2:57:23 PM PST by rey
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To: Olog-hai

Just wait until they discover the Wheel


27 posted on 02/17/2015 2:57:32 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Olog-hai

The Earth isn’t round either.
Shaped like a burrito.


28 posted on 02/17/2015 2:58:45 PM PST by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"Why do these cave dwellers want to go backwards...?"

For them, this isn't backwards...

29 posted on 02/17/2015 3:01:01 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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To: Olog-hai

*gasp*!! He didn’t say the Sun & the Earth revolve around Saudi Arabia??!


30 posted on 02/17/2015 3:01:33 PM PST by odds
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To: Olog-hai

Galaxy Song by Monty Python:

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the ‘milky way’

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide

We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go ‘round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause there’s bother all down here on Earth

And, apparently in Saudi Arabia, too.


31 posted on 02/17/2015 3:03:11 PM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Olog-hai
"Khaibari argued, confusingly, that the Earth cannot rotate because it would render air travel impossible."

So what happens, if a cat is tossed up in the air?

;-)


32 posted on 02/17/2015 3:03:51 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: mountainlion
Is his world flat also?

Yes, and its highest point is Mt. Olympus.

33 posted on 02/17/2015 3:04:07 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Olog-hai

Well, NOW I can see how all those arabs, muzzies and islamics won so many Nobel Prizes and did so much for humanity over the past centuries.


34 posted on 02/17/2015 3:04:33 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians.)
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To: Olog-hai

This guy declares a fatwa against the laws of physics.


35 posted on 02/17/2015 3:04:47 PM PST by Cecily
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To: CharleysPride

If the Earth is round and a person is praying to some stupid black box that should be nuked what are they praying to if they happen to be a few miles away from said black box?

Space maybe?

Nah!


36 posted on 02/17/2015 3:05:18 PM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: Olog-hai

I always knew there
Was some thing very
Wrong about air travel.


37 posted on 02/17/2015 3:05:52 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: OldNavyVet

Time and long past time, for Islam to have its version of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, which is largely the removal of these clerics who cling to notions that were discarded by the West centuries ago.

Renaissance is a painful time for any culture. It means breaking a lot of icons and beginning the process of applying critical thinking.

And besides, airplanes cannot fly. They have these incredibly powerful springs in their undercarriages that cause them to bounce from one point to the next.


38 posted on 02/17/2015 3:07:50 PM PST by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: ought-six
He went for the acid.

Too bad it was the brown acid.

39 posted on 02/17/2015 3:07:50 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: familyop

Never mind bird migration, or bird flight altogether.


40 posted on 02/17/2015 3:08:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
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