Dhuha Smith, #convert from Britain🇬🇧

📚Islam and science 📖📝🔎

🖌When I was a non Muslim, one of my thoughts about #Islam was that this religion is opposed to #science and #knowledge .

🔎I thought, all the religions, and especially Islam, believe that the  knowledge leads to denying the existence of #God. so, they opposed to learning and teaching that.

📖But when I read the #Quran, I realized that on most Quran's pages and chapters are  irresistible urge to thinking and knowing .

📕Muslim leaders and the Prophet Muhammad cared deeply into knowledge, and also they  encouraged people to learning.
And more than thousand #Hadith of the prophet are about knowledge.

📗By studying these subjects, arose  a question in my mind: If indeed Islam is a lie, so  why supported from the thinking and reasoning ?

#DhuhaSmith

#Islamandscience #scienceinIslam
#knowledge
#knowledgeinIslam
#learn

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📚Dr. Guiderdoni sheds light✨ on the firm relationship between #Islam and #science.
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🌐http://rahyafte.com/en/4072/

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Zuckerberg engaged in training an AI using a dataset comprised of a staggering 48 million scientific papers. However, the project came to an abrupt halt just as it began to unveil uncomfortable truths. The decision to terminate the AI's operations at such a nascent stage hints at the discomfort that arises when confronted with unsettling revelations.

#AI #Science #DataMining #TechEthics #UncomfortableTruths 🤖📚

🔬 Autophagy Fasting: The Power of Cellular Renewal

After 17 hours of fasting, your cells initiate autophagy—a remarkable self-cleansing process where they:

✅ Remove damaged components 🗑️
✅ Optimize mitochondrial function ⚡
✅ Eliminate viruses & bacteria 🦠

This groundbreaking discovery by Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi won him the 2016 Nobel Prize 🏆 for its profound impact on cellular health.

🕰️ Time to let your body heal from within!

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🔭 On the Death Anniversary of Galileo Galilei (Jan 8, 1642)
🤔 The Church, Wronged by Galileo? A Critical Re-reading of History's Most Famous "Science vs. Faith" Case

The story we all know: The heroic Galileo bravely defied the dogmatic, anti-science Catholic Church for truth. But what if this popular narrative is a profound historical distortion?

A deep dive into the actual records of the 17th-century conflict reveals startling truths. It paints a picture not of a martyr of science, but of a complex clash where the Church's position was far more reasoned than we've been told.

📜 Deconstructing the Galileo Myth
Contrary to popular belief,Galileo:
❌Did NOT invent the telescope, the pendulum clock, or prove the laws of inertia.
❌Did NOT drop weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
❌Was NEVER tortured or imprisoned in a dank cell.
❌Did NOT defiantly mutter "And yet it moves" (Eppur si muove).

His fame rests largely on things he never actually did. The "Galileo vs. The Church" story is a powerful myth constructed by the victors of a later intellectual era.

⚖️ Why Did the Church Object? It Wasn't (Just) About Religion.
The Church's opposition wasnot a blind rejection of science. In fact:
•Copernicus's sun-centered book circulated freely for decades before Galileo, even encouraged by some cardinals.
•The Church's leading intellectuals, like Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, explicitly stated: "If a real proof is found that the sun is at the center... we would have to proceed with great caution in explaining passages of Scripture which appear to teach the contrary."

Their primary objections were scientific and philosophical:

1. Lack of Proof: Conclusive evidence for Earth's motion (like stellar parallax) wouldn't come for another 200 years. Galileo's proofs were flawed and incomplete.
2. Challenging Aristotle: Galileo's claims dismantled the dominant Aristotelian worldview, which provided a coherent framework for all medieval knowledge. Undermining it had destabilizing consequences.
3. Problems with the Telescope: Early telescopes were unreliable. At a key demonstration in 1610, 24 scholars found it produced deceptive images of celestial objects. Galileo lacked the optical theory to properly justify its use for astronomy.

🕰️ The Real Conflict: Politics & Personality
The clash was as much about context and character as cosmology:
•The Protestant Reformation: The Catholic Church, locked in a bitter struggle with Protestants, was hypersensitive to new interpretations of Scripture, which Protestants used as ammunition. Galileo's insistence that the Bible must be reinterpreted based on his unproven theory was a political landmine.
•Galileo's Temperament: Historians note his arrogance, sarcasm, and confrontational style inflamed tensions with philosophers and theologians who might have been more open to dialogue.

⚖️ How the Church Actually Treated Him: Surprisingly Lenient
Contrary to the brutal inquisitorial image:

1. First Trial (1616): He was merely warned to teach the Copernican model as a hypothesis, not proven truth. No punishment.
2. Second Trial (1633): His charge was not heresy, but disobeying the 1616 decree. His "harsh" sentence? House arrest in his comfortable villa in Arcetri for the rest of his life.

💎 The Bottom Line
This story is not about"enlightened science vs. backward religion." It was a complex dispute where:
•The Church demanded scientific rigor for a revolutionary claim.
•Galileo championed an idea whose time had come, but without the definitive proof it needed.
•The myth that later emerged served to cement a narrative of inevitable scientific triumph over religious obstruction.

History is written by the victors. In the battle for modern public opinion, Galileo's story was reshaped into a perfect foundational myth for a secular, scientific age.

🔍 Source (Persian): A critical re-reading of the Galileo affair.
https://jscenter.ir/jewish-methods/falsification-of-history/12957

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#History #Science #Galileo #Church #MythBusting #CriticalThinking #HistoryRevision #Philosophy #Astronomy

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