[Lexinom]

The article's target audience precludes the deeper theological reasons behind this belief. Muslims believe the world is recreated constantly, at infitessimally small increments, like frames in a movie. If you throw a spear, the example goes, that spear is re-created at each position from the moment it leaves your hand until it finds its target. Even some highly credible and respected Protestant theologians like Jonathan Edwards believed in this, or some variant of it.

From a metaphysical/philosophical starting point, this is a rather fascinating area of study, the type of thing men devote entire lives to.

[yankeedame]

From a metaphysical/philosophical starting point, this is a rather fascinating area of study, the type of thing men andevote entire lives to.

If they so choose. But not as a raison d'être of an entire culture.

[livius]

One of the problems with Islam is that their concept of God is that of a completely arbitrary, capricious being, who has no internal law of his own, is bound by no inner dynamic, and thus could at any moment decide to be or do exactly the reverse of what he was being or doing prior to that moment.

This means that everything in creation and nature is therefore contingent. Clearly scientific research is pointless if you really can’t be certain that there is any particular law in the first place or if there is any certainty that this law, if it exists, will be adhered to in the future. In fact, even the concept of future is laden with fear and confusion, because a Muslim can’t depend on the future as being reasonably predictable in any That’s why they tend to rely on bizarre prophecies rather than rational analysis and faith.

[TonyStark]

Muslims believe the world is recreated constantly, at infitessimally small increments, like frames in a movie.

So do physicists. It is called quantum mechanics.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

From a metaphysical/philosophical starting point, this is a rather fascinating area of study, the type of thing men devote entire lives to.

Sounds like fun...

[JamesP81]

From a metaphysical/philosophical starting point, this is a rather fascinating area of study, the type of thing men devote entire lives to.

A similar theory pervades computer science circles. The theory being that reality is a computer simulation, and that for that spear fliying through the air to move, somewhere a command to copy from one location to another in memory is constantly running.

While reality isn't a computer simulation, IMO, it does bear some resemblance. This is what quantum physicists study. Schroedinger's cat and all that stuff.