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Saudi cleric tells students 'Earth does not rotate'
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A Saudi cleric has drawn ridicule on social media after claiming that the Earth does not rotate, and that the Sun orbits the Earth.
Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, answering questions from students at a university in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, told his audience the Earth is "stationary and does not move".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11419428/Watch-Saudi-cleric-tells-students-Earth-does-not-rotate.html
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I am flabbergasted, I don't know where to start.
Is this what Islam believes? How much attention do Muslims give these clerics?
Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari, answering questions from students at a university in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, told his audience the Earth is "stationary and does not move".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11419428/Watch-Saudi-cleric-tells-students-Earth-does-not-rotate.html
(VIDEO)
I am flabbergasted, I don't know where to start.
Is this what Islam believes? How much attention do Muslims give these clerics? 0
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You could start by reading the previous thread about this!
Sorry, I must have missed that thread, should I delete this? How do I delete?
I'll just let the thread slip away, no worries. I'm off to watch Better Call Saul now anyway.:)
Give the poor guy some credit, at least he has realised the world is not flat...mind you China must be pretty empty these days all those people unable to get there.
It is unbelievable what he's coming out with. Earth isn't spinning but other planets are because of Venus and others being seen moving around this one? Hmm...
WTF... who the hell would believe that this is 2015 not 615.
what next saying the earth is flat.
"how can the plane get to china if the earth is moving..."
Well of course it's flat! How else do spirit levels work? Or chives? Or self-levelling cement?
Some people...
When you consider that in many Islamic countries, approximatey 70 percent of the population reject evolutionary science and believe the universe popped into existence 6000 years ago in a puff of smoke, it's hardly surprising.
About as much as religious people in the West don't think the big bang happened and that we all came from Adam & Eve?
No one probably wanted to raise the counter point that, by his logic, you can't stand on a moving train and walk to the buffet carriage, in case they were locked in a metal cage and burned alive...
if i was listening to him after burst out laughing at the fool.
and just what the hell did no one question it,
I think the beginning of the universe was when someone rubbed the lantern actually. Not sure what the three wishes were though.
What percentage of Western countries believe we came from Adam & Eve?
As I said, because they were too scared. Many parts of the world still have a culture where you never question the wisdom of elders or professionals.
If you laughed out loud at him in his own country, you may find life becomes more difficult for you.
Because it is not Allah's will. Unless it is, and you do.
Maybe they were crying with laughter too.
Because you are still moving relative to the moving train and not the ground outside.
*swiftly recalibrates Theodolite*