Does Archeology Support Religion

muqawwee123 · February 7, 2012, 7:18pm

Any of the events described in religious books like Bible, Quran, Geeta, Mahabharata, etc.

Catskin · February 7, 2012, 7:36pm

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saaray saboot mitaa diye hon gay ab tak atheists nay.

muqawwee123 · February 7, 2012, 7:39pm

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That means one who are faithful are relying on religion witout evidence?

TLK · February 7, 2012, 7:43pm

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Does archeology support the existence of 7 wonders of ancient world? Were they real?

muqawwee123 · February 7, 2012, 8:00pm

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No. Archeology doesn't support all of the seven wonders of ancient world. Many of those wonders including 'Hanging gardens of Babylon' are more myth than reality.

TLK · February 7, 2012, 8:01pm

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I dont know if we can call them myth, just because we could not find a physical evidence.

muqawwee123 · February 7, 2012, 8:08pm

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Agreed. we should not call them myth just because we don't have evidence for their physical existence. But until we have any proof of their existence, these can't be termed as reality.

Ghost14 · February 8, 2012, 3:29am

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Well the big one is Noah's ark, which has never been found.

UZ · February 8, 2012, 5:42pm

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Lot of bible and Quran events are same and probably some day we can find evident. Like Ashab-e-kahaf's tale, I have heard some people made tomb on their graves but in today's world we don't know where it is may be if historians try they will find it.

TLK · February 8, 2012, 5:45pm

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I heard that there are lots of evidence that great flood did happen though

queer · February 8, 2012, 5:52pm

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really.. atheists are the only ones with shovels? lol

Catskin · February 8, 2012, 5:59pm

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^no i was just joking ... truth is that most religious communities don't allow digging up holy sites so it's rare to find any artifacts etc.

queer · February 8, 2012, 6:03pm

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well.. there's stuff one can verify outside of holy sites too - the idea that ancient humans were bigger, or lived much longer etc. these have never been the case with anything anyone's dug up.

muqawwee123 · February 8, 2012, 6:04pm

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^ What saudi Govt is doing with archlogical evidnece related to Prophet is going to stand our future generations in awkward positin before those who object religion without evidence.

Shak · February 8, 2012, 6:04pm

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true

TLK · February 8, 2012, 6:06pm

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In case of Prophet Mohammed , history is so well preserved that not knowing where is house was in Makkah would not effect anything. We have his grave known. What more do we need as a proof that he was a real person.

Catskin · February 8, 2012, 6:21pm

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queer · February 8, 2012, 6:36pm

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exactly, catskin. they arent real fossils, just fables. teutobochus turned out to be dinosaur bones.

muqawwee123 · February 8, 2012, 6:38pm

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Yes we are still in better position, but commerialism and considering archeological places as a source to shirk may lead to destruction of many historical places.

News that David Kennedy, an Australian scholar, has succeeded in identifying almost 2,000 unexplored archaeological sites using Google Earth has focused attention on the wages of that battle: **the destruction of Saudi Arabia’s own heritage More than 90 per cent of the archaeological treasures of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, experts estimate, have been demolished to make way for hotels, apartment blocks and parking facilities. **

The $13 billion project that led to a wave of demolitions in the middle of the last decade was part of an effort to modernise infrastructure in the ancient cities, where millions of pilgrims gather for the Hajj each year.

Sami Angawi, an expert on Arabian architecture, lamented that history had been " bulldozed for a parking lot". “We are witnessing now the last few moments of the history of Mecca,”, he said.

The Kingdom’s ultraconservative clerics believe that the veneration of ancient sites associated with the Prophet Mohammad and his family is heretical, and want potential shrines obliterated.

In October last year, a Saudi clerical body was reported to have renewed long-standing calls for the demolition of several historic Islamic sites – including the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the grave of his mother.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/8303974/Analysis-Saudi-Arabias-war-between-god-and-archaeology.html

muqawwee123 · February 8, 2012, 7:47pm

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A Documentary based on the research of Haroon Yahya on Noah’s Ark.

The Documenatary is divided as under:

From 0:01 to 12:25 [The things mentioned in Quran for Hazrat Noah (AS) - his preachings, constrution of the ark, flood and destruction]

From 12:26 to 14:00 [Dealing with the issue whether the flood was global or local. As per Quran it was local towards people of Noah. Archeology shows that it happened in Mesopotamia (current day Iraq)]

From 14:01 to 17:00 [Dealing with te history of catastrophies in Mesopotamia supported by historical references]

From 17:00 to 23:00 [Dealing with the archeological evidence from exacavation conducted by British Musuem in the four cities of Mesopotamia (Ur, Erech, Shurupaak, Kish). Evidences of exacavations in all cities by different archeologists prove flood in all the cities during same period.]

23:25 - 25:00 [Dealing with the question, ‘were all the animals were carried on the Ark?’ the answer is ‘no’ as per the Quranic version]

25:20 to 26:25 [Dealing with the question 'how high did the waters rise? Koh e Judi(The moutain of Judi) as interpreted by some people is not the name of specifc mounain. In arabic Judi means a higher place (IMO Jad from where we took Aaba o ajdaad may refer to higher hierarchy of relations)]

26:39 to 29:17 Dealing with the religions and cultures mentioning the great flood - Its even mentioned in Greek and Indian traditions of Mahabharata