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. …
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I've almost choked on some peanuts when I read this.
About 700 mph at your place. Be careful.
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
Yeah we have to be very careful here in the wooded lands.
As long as he didn’t say anything denying global climate change, he’s ok.
Just wait until they discover the Wheel
The Earth isn’t round either.
Shaped like a burrito.
For them, this isn't backwards...
*gasp*!! He didn’t say the Sun & the Earth revolve around Saudi Arabia??!
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.
Yes, and its highest point is Mt. Olympus.
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.
This guy declares a fatwa against the laws of physics.
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!
I always knew there
Was some thing very
Wrong about air travel.
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.
Too bad it was the brown acid.
Never mind bird migration, or bird flight altogether.
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