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Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by disease on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:12PM (#24731335)
I'll admit to not having read the full article, but would a belief like this make the assumption that God's will could even overrule logic itself. Could God will 2 + 2 = 5? How would you rationalize this? Or perhaps the point is to irradiate rationality.
Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by mmmmmk on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:03PM (#24731959)
Yes, Al-Ghazali made that point. I don't remember the specific passage but he made the comment that if he left a book in his library, he has no way to know that god did not turn it into a donkey, which was at that moment pissing on all his other books. I'll search for that quote, because it was pretty exciting for a medieval philosophy class.
Re:Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011) by sasaf5 on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:51PM (#24731816)
The point is not to rationalize. God could 2 + 2 = 5 and stop trying to understand His will as it is arbitrary. And then of course use this narrative to legitimize some autocrat.