Finished reading: Origin by Dan Brown 📚
It’s very Dan Brown, obviously. I enjoyed reading it thoroughly. There are two things I’d like to point out after reading this book.
Firstly, I didn’t realize that I read a lot quicker with a physical book than with an e-book on a Kindle. That was quite a revelation to me.
Secondly, I might have ranted about this in a post around two months ago or something. The “groundbreaking” scientific discovery made by Edmond Kirsch was supposed to annul and invalidate religious teachings, or at least their foundation. After finding out what the discovery was, I was highly skeptical (I know it’s fictional) that it would have done anything to shake religious teachings whatsoever (based on Islam, at least). Why? Because there is already an argument regarding this, and there is a flaw in terms of rationality: creating something out of nothing (which you cannot do, by the way, because it wouldn’t make sense or be rational whatsoever) and possibly other reasons (read The Divine Reality by Hamza Andreas Tzortzis). In my opinion, the fact that Dan Brown just clumped every religion together as one and made them pit against science is highly offensive. In Islam, there is no church and state separation, by the way. During the Golden Age of Islam, scientific discoveries were at their peak alongside the practice of Islam, which should be an indicator that we strive to be successful in both since whatever scientific discovery is made would just explain the divinity of the one true God and Islam as a whole, not contradict them.