"Zahir Alpaslan" <extropydummy@hotmail.com> writes:
> i liked all the previous emails about islam and extropianism. it is great to
> be able to see all the different ideas and views.
It would be interesting to hear your views on how extropy would
interact with the muslim way (OK, that is a big and complex question,
but we have to start somewhere).
> there are many ways to interpret things for example you can interpret
> cryogenics as reincarnation and if you read quran you'll see many references
> to that.
I remember seeing a website for some islamic apologist claiming the
quran accurately describes the universe of modern cosmology by
interpreting one sura as a statement that the universe is closed and
would implode in a Big Crunch. Of course, given current observational
data for an open universe that interpretation is a bit shaky now :-)
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