al-amiyr
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I will respond by saying that Humans were already sitting on a pile of knowledge gained from Humans unfettered by religious dogma or interpretations,in fact i think if we had always been unfettered by religion we would be a lot further in our understanding of everything instead of trying to climb the stairs with an Elephant strapped to your back.
Islamic astronomy was not fettered by the restrictions that a rigid - and erroneous interpretation of the Bible imposed upon Western astronomers. Conversely the Quran, the sacred book of Islam that was supposedly revealed to Muhammad by Allah, seemed to encourage a study of astronomy.
There was no encouragement required,the hard work had already been done by the time of the Qur'an,when one considers what Islam inherited from Byzantium and the Greeks,Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Al-Farabi (great name BTW) was a great Muslim Scholar who was called "the second Teacher",second only to Aristotle,a cosmoligist logician and Musician,i heard his name at School many Moons ago,i doubt he got to his reputation from the few scant sentences you offer.
Again you are going off track.What has this got to do with the questions I have asked you? And what has this got to do with Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Al-Farabi?
Lets look at your statement," from the few scant sentences."
scant meaning: 1)- Barely sufficient 2)-Falling short of a specific measure 3)-Inadequately supplied; short:
Either you did not read what I wrote what is contained in those two sentences which I am in the process of outlining or if you did then it already appears as if you have already passed judgement. You will soon see how much detail those scant verses contain. The prophet said," I was bestowed with jawaami"-al-kalim.- Algorithmic Compressions-. What were revealed abundantly before were revealed to me in few sentences."
I am still waiting for you to answer the questions below as asked before.
"The Qur'aan is simply fusing within itself simultaneously all the knowledge and in that particular suwrah as you said 'the Sura seems more argument and rebuttal as to the authenticity of both Muhammed and his message'. But that same message also contains cosmological information. Does it not? Why dismiss that information?"