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By: //v

//v — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:33:21 +0000

Well, it was not INTENDED to be a source of scientific prediction.

By: Ben 2

Ben 2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:59:51 +0000

Frankie: FYI it’s actually spelled using Arabic letters.

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By: frankie

frankie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:40:35 +0000

Isn’t it spelt ‘Qu’ran’?

Just sayin.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:06:09 +0000

Steve Bell, I don’t suppose you were the Steve Bell once in the Virgina National Guard, were you? Not likely, but just checking. A person in the communications section of the unit I was in had the same name.

By: louis

louis — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:12:45 +0000

i had a conversation w/ a bahai’ about this. he used to say that his messiah, bahau’lla (sp? too lazy to go look) fortold the splitting of the atom. i thought it funny how people actually take that line of reasoning seriously. (not that it’s surprising, given other things people will believe if it relates to ‘god’)

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:31:15 +0000

” . . . curing haemorrhoids by sitting on a lionâ€™s skin”

Yeah, I believe it, but only if the lion was still in the skin and alive.

By: JayBee

JayBee — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:30:19 +0000

I am sure the barmaid wasn’t referring to Big Gay Al from southpark…

By: Jerry w

Jerry w — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:00:48 +0000

Maybe “Big Al” is a battleship named after the state of Alabama, like “Big Mo” was

the nickname for a WWII battleship named after the state of Missouri.?

Wait a minute, “Big Mo”?

Crap, I think I’ve just broken the Koran Kode!!!

http://boskolives.wordpress.com/

By: Steve Bell

Steve Bell — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:54:31 +0000

I’ve always thought “Big Al” was Albertus Magnus (c1200-1280), German Dominican scholar and author (or reteller) of some delightful pieces of proto-medicine as curing haemorrhoids by sitting on a lion’s skin and holding “the stone called Iris” in the beams of the sun to make a rainbow on the wall (move over Newton).

By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:03:32 +0000

Well, Ophelia, you’re right; that’s how literary criticism works, anyway. And ALL creationism.

Sheba in Atheism: Oh, I dunno. What’s wrong with “The Big The”? Makes perfect sense to me, since “the” is the definite aricle, making it “The God” rather than “A God.” But, yes, Big The is still the man, down on the corner seeing to it that every man, woman, and child has his/her personal Uzi or AK47 or BAR.

In the U.S., anyway, there are more household guns than there are people.

As Poor Richard says, “Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world, but you standeth where I am about to shoot.”

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:22:47 +0000

Oh come on now, be fair – the only way to get the results you want is to decide ahead of time what you want to find and then look for evidence that fits. That way you don’t waste time on a lot of evidence that is no use to you because it doesn’t fit with the result you want to find. See? That’s why holy books can’t make predictions – it’s because they don’t know what they’re looking for yet.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:54:29 +0000

Brilliant. Muslims often prattle on about how Islam tells the story of the big bang and son on when the science v religion debates start.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:46:04 +0000

Like I tell my students, the proof of a good theory is its predictive validity. Does it tell us what to expect if it’s true? Scientific theories, yes.

Religious belief systems? Not so much. They only help us see one way, into the past. Big deal! Even I can see the past.

By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:24:39 +0000

Way back when the Muslim world brought us arithmetic, telescopes/astronomy, and lots of other cool stuff, it WAS ahead of most of the world.
But it didn’t come from the Quran. On the contrary, it was Islamic fundamentalism that did in their hopes for material progress. If they had stayed the course, they might have made it to the moon (not for purposes of slicing it up, either) or built highly advanced computers by, say, the 19th century. And with all that gasoline, the desert would have flowered with automobiles. And the Great Era of Global Warming would already be over.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:31:44 +0000

Read one of these “science” books at a public library once. It made the brain baby kick.

By: tie

tie — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:24:16 +0000

awesome strip, after debating many retards in youtube about the miracles of science in the quran, this is probably the only thing that they can understand.

This strip owns,

if the Quran fortolds so much science, how come it did not propell the muslim world head of everyone else in the planet? They had an instruction manual to the workings of the universe right there in the Quran, one wonders what the hell where they thinking waiting for the kuffir to discover things first, and take the credit…

miracles in the Quran… what a joke.

By: mjm202036

mjm202036 — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:13:29 +0000

I hope that “Big Al” isn’t a bitter American with all those guns; because if he’s associated with Mo (religion) then we’re all in trouble.

By: JohnnieCanuck

JohnnieCanuck — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:46:39 +0000

So does Big Al have lots of those cheap assault rifles in stock?

You know, the ones forecast in the Ko’ran for Shi’a to use against Sunni and vice versa.

By: Poor Richard

Poor Richard — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:07:54 +0000

“Big Al” runs the gun shop down on the corner.