Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.
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Secular, Christian, Jewish, and Catholic scientists have refuted that "Nobody gives a flying shit, so STFU"
So, you think we should go to loads of time, confusion, effort and expense to swap one arbitary location for a location, to do what? Boost your ego?
Nowhere on the surface of the earth is its center.
And if you're looking at a map, it really depends on whose map you're looking at.
@ Mister Spak:
There is actually a "flat earth"-fatwa: image
Again, during 1993, the fertile Islamic brain of this Muslim genius again started working overtime. On one fine morning, the great genius opened his personal copy of the Holy Koran, pulled out some scientific miracles from Allah’s Holy book and came out with a new discovery that earth is flat’. http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1243&Itemid=73
Wow. I'm the one that submited this. I never expected it to make it into the site this fast. Then again, I suppose the quote is worth it. Everyone, read the whole article for their "reasoning". I just quoted the blurb.
Grey Wolf
Mecca's at 21.5N, 39.8E, so the opposite side of the planet is at 21.5S, 140.2W, which is just North of Tematagi in the South Pacific. Just think, if all the mooselamb morons were there any direction would face Mecca and they would all drown.
Kzickas,
Check the full article. They are basing this all on the Koran. Sorry, I didn't want to risk the quote getting thrown out for being too wordy:
The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend in some Muslim societies of seeking to find Koranic precedents for modern science.
At any rate, it is plenty fundy.
Hope that helps,
Grey Wolf
Ixolite:
That fatwa was withdrawn.
Ok, and the rest of the universe doesn't give a danm. When they give convincing arguments for that, we'll think. Besides, the GTM was made for conventional measuring, not because English Isles were the centre of the Earth. Mecca is a religious town in the same sense Santiago de Compostela, Rome or Lasha are. If the Koran was so advanced, why do we have to discover all those things by ourselves and explain how they appear in the Koran A POSTERIORI?.
Grey wolf:
It's worse(or better depending on your persective) than that. There is a research project underway to find the next scientific breakthroughs in the koran. The goal is to find the instructions for making ray guns and transporters and warp drive etc. in the koran, thus giving muslims more advanced technology than the infidel west.
I read that and spewed coca-cola out my nose. Thanks a lot.
Plus, as long as it's "five o'clock somewhere", I'm good.
Mister Spak:
Actualy, that is good news. Every {currency unit} they spend on that program is one NOT spent in new weapons. And of course, it is entertaining. I feel the same way about money the US people spend on creationism, actually. Rednecks with fewer weapons is a good thing, and of course it makes it easier for Europeans to find jobs since there is fewer educated americans to compete against.
Chancellor Gorkon:
You are welcome :P
Hope that helps,
Grey Wolf
If they had proposed this in the 10th century, it probably would have happened. That was back in the day when the Arabs led in the world of science. The French proposed replacing Greenwich with Sèvres as part of the metric system (the meter itself is based on a line through Sèvres), but that didn't fly, either.
"Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth."
I know you guys probably think the Earth is a flat disc but it's actually a sphere (generally speaking) which means it doesn't have a fucking "center" on it's surface, hence you morons certainly aren't at it.
They already have their own calendar and set up their workweek differently (their weekend is our Thursday and Friday), I don't really see how this is a problem. If they are trying to do this in some country like England, then its not going to happen, but if its in Saudi Arabia or whatever, I don't care how they set up their clocks.
m52nickerson: If it weren't for the Islamic Empire, the Western world wouldn't have had its Renaissance to pull it out of the Dark Ages. Islam and science used to be very compatible, because it was understood that Allah had created the world with these scientific laws and to know Allah one had to know how the world worked. Its closed off quite a bit today, but Muslims still come to the US and England by the boatloads to become engineers and doctors and scientists.
Come on, guys, careful with the hate now. Some of the comments are sounding just as bad as any Christian fundie's on the Muslims.
From the news 'story' "One 'geologist' argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in perfect alignment to magnetic north." (' ' around geologist added by me)
What does magnetic north have to do with time zones or the center of a sphere? Also, as magnetic north moves does that mean we have to move the time zones?
Yeah, like that's gonna happen.
Also, the center of the earth is an iron/nickel core.
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Now Islam has Creationism, too !!!
NYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !
Now Islam has Creationism, too !!!
If you're a fundie Muslim, the center of the earth is Mecca.
If you're a fundie Christian, the center of the earth is hell.
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