Re: Nice bracketing

From: Tony Cox (tc_at_coxrt.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:19:00 GMT

"1MAN4ALL" <forahmad@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112067364.061834.225380@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Tony Cox wrote:
>
> > Interesting. The suggestion is that the correlation is with
> > ocean tides, which (as the article suggests) precede by
> > a few hours the maximum sun/moon forces on the earth's crust.
> > (Although only small quakes were analyzed, not big ones).
> > It would seem to be not so much a tidal effect, but a phenomena
> > influenced by the pressure on the seabed caused by the varying
> > depth of water above.
> >
> > Fascinating. No doubt 1MAN can point us to the verse
> > in the Qur'an where this has been foretold.
>
> There is nothing about tsunamis in Quran but there is a verse that
> could be relevant:

Oh dear! I forget to add a smiley face at the end of the
sentence and off you go again. Tell me you're pulling my
leg, please.

>
> [24.40] Or like utter darkness in the deep sea: there covers it a wave
> above which is another wave, above which is a cloud, (layers of) utter
> darkness one above another; when he holds out his hand, he is almost
> unable to see it; and to whomsoever Allah does not give light, he has
> no light.
>
> I once a read story that a man who was on ship read this verse and
> asked his shipmate who was a Muslim whether Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w)
> was a sailor. When he was told that Prophet Muhammad lived in the
> desert and never traveled on the high seas, he immediately converted to
> Islam.

So Islam was a magnet for the intellectually challenged
from the start, right? More likely Muhammad picked up
the description from one of the hundreds of merchants he
met on his various travels; no need to make a mystery where
there is none. Arthur C. Clark has written very convincing
descriptions of space flight, while remaining permanently
earthbound. Do you think Allah was whispering in his ear
too?

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