"So how come no-one who read it over those hundreds of years had the presence of mind to put some of those scientific facts to use? Einstein must be really annoyed that he had to do all that maths himself when he could have just picked up a translation of the Qur'an to find out about special relativity. And so many diseases could have been prevented or cured if someone had thought to read this amazingly scientific book to find out about antibiotics. That bloke who - disastrously - invented both leaded petrol and chlorofluorocarbons really should have read the Qur'an too. Think how useful satellite navigation would have been in the desert..."
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
"So how come no-one who read it over those hundreds of years had the presence of mind to put some of those scientific facts to use? Einstein must be really annoyed that he had to do all that maths himself when he could have just picked up a translation of the Qur'an to find out about special relativity. And so many diseases could have been prevented or cured if someone had thought to read this amazingly scientific book to find out about antibiotics. That bloke who - disastrously - invented both leaded petrol and chlorofluorocarbons really should have read the Qur'an too. Think how useful satellite navigation would have been in the desert..."
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"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."