Little-Acorn
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Their "argument" seems to be that since Mecca is exactly on the longitude line of Magnetic North, it is the true center of the world, not Greenwich, England.
Ummm, Magnetic North is at 117 degrees West longitude. Mecca is at 39 degrees East. Meaning they are about 156 degrees apart in longitude.
If they were 0 apart, they'd be on the same longitude like this storyteller claims... but they aren't. Even if they were 180 degrees apart, then an argument could be made that they are on the "same" longitude, since longitude lines encircle the earth. But they aren't that either, not even close.
We already found out that most middle East Muslims can't fly planes or negotiate international peace worth a damn, or even develop indoor plumbing. Looks like they can't even navigate, either - a science thousands of years old.
Tell me exactly why we should consider Mecca the center of anything, other than confusion, fear, corruption, poverty, and murder?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352011,00.html
Report: Muslim Leaders Want Mecca to Be Center of World Time Zones
Monday, April 21, 2008
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by "Mecca Time," if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.
At the conference, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice," Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in Saudi Arabia is the center of the Earth and should be the reference point for world time, not Greenwich, England, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.
One geologist at the Qatar conference said Mecca's longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, the BBC reports.
Attendees of the conference also reviewed the "Mecca Watch," an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Mecca's direction from any point in the world, the BBC said.
The conference is part of a trend called “Ijaz al-Koran" or "miraculous nature of the holy text," which tries to find precedents for modern science from passages in the Koran, the BBC reports.
But its critics say Ijaz al-Koran confuses spiritual truth — which depends on constant faith — with empirical truth, which depends on ever-changing science, the BBC said.
Ummm, Magnetic North is at 117 degrees West longitude. Mecca is at 39 degrees East. Meaning they are about 156 degrees apart in longitude.
If they were 0 apart, they'd be on the same longitude like this storyteller claims... but they aren't. Even if they were 180 degrees apart, then an argument could be made that they are on the "same" longitude, since longitude lines encircle the earth. But they aren't that either, not even close.
We already found out that most middle East Muslims can't fly planes or negotiate international peace worth a damn, or even develop indoor plumbing. Looks like they can't even navigate, either - a science thousands of years old.
Tell me exactly why we should consider Mecca the center of anything, other than confusion, fear, corruption, poverty, and murder?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352011,00.html
Report: Muslim Leaders Want Mecca to Be Center of World Time Zones
Monday, April 21, 2008
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by "Mecca Time," if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.
At the conference, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice," Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in Saudi Arabia is the center of the Earth and should be the reference point for world time, not Greenwich, England, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.
One geologist at the Qatar conference said Mecca's longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, the BBC reports.
Attendees of the conference also reviewed the "Mecca Watch," an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Mecca's direction from any point in the world, the BBC said.
The conference is part of a trend called “Ijaz al-Koran" or "miraculous nature of the holy text," which tries to find precedents for modern science from passages in the Koran, the BBC reports.
But its critics say Ijaz al-Koran confuses spiritual truth — which depends on constant faith — with empirical truth, which depends on ever-changing science, the BBC said.
