Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth

Washington FRee Beacon ^ | 18 February 2015 | Adam Kredo

[jda]

A Saudi cleric is garnering headlines for declaring that the sun revolves around the Earth, a clear rejection of all scientific evidence.

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The controversial cleric, Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, was caught making the comments in a short video clip posted to YouTube on Monday.

In response to a question posed by a student, al-Khaibari says the Earth is “stationary and does not move.”

While al-Khaibari’s remarks have been mocked on social networking sites such as Twitter, regional experts say his anti-science stance is embraced and promoted by leading Saudi clerics in charge of the country’s religious authority.

“It makes perfect sense for a Saudi cleric to be arguing that the sun revolves around the Earth because this is the sort of message they are getting from on high,” according to David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).

[Iron Munro]

Spirograph - The Extra Large "Galaxy" size.

[Prov1322]

He could just "MarieHarf" on his critics and just say he's too nuanced for them...

So this is the "religion" that we are constantly told they have known/taught "advanced" knowledge of math, science, et al for centuries...

[SunkenCiv]

See, if he had a college degree... ;’)

[GOPJ]

Can you tell the difference between a coffee mug and a donut?

[GOPJ]

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

“There’s an old joke among mathematicians that topologists (who study deformations of space) can’t tell a coffee cup from a donut. In physics, topology is used in several areas such as quantum field theory and cosmology.”

From link:

A topological quantum field theory (or topological field theory or TQFT) is a quantum field theory which computes topological invariants.

Although TQFTs were invented by physicists, they are also of mathematical interest, being related to, among other things, knot theory and the theory of four-manifolds in algebraic topology, and to the theory of moduli spaces in algebraic geometry. Donaldson, Jones, Witten, and Kontsevich have all won Fields Medals for work related to topological field theory.

In cosmology, topology can be used to describe the overall shape of the universe.[18] This area is known as spacetime topology.

[jdege]

I knew that. I just thought it was too old a joke to be worth commenting on...