John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892-1964, British Geneticist, “Daedalus, or Science and the Future,” 1923
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At the time Islam was quite conflicted about the role of innovation, science and reform. Innovators were to many theologians as dangerous to society as heretics and had to be refuted. Al-Ashari’s school of thought has prevailed in much of the Muslim world to this day.
The choice of non-capitalization of the word “god” was Jefferson’s and is retained herein. This quotation is one of the most important in American history because it set the boundary for when it was proper for government to legislate personal behavior. For Jefferson, legislation was only justified if the behavior damged other people economically or physicly. Moral, religious, ethical or cultural affects were not sufficient to interfere with other people's freedom. The quotation was initially given to argue against a state etablished church and blasphemy laws and has been used in arguments even into the 21st century debate over gay marriage.
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Public money had traditionally been spent to support shrines of Muslim saints. Ataturk ended such subsidies.
There are many scientists who disagree with Johnson’s very unusual logic. They point out that it is certainly possible that God initially did not have had humans in minds, and when they evolved, decided that they were worthy of salvation history and then interfered to the extent of a virgin birth. Others would point out that just because man cannot exactly foresee the exact future pattern of evolution, does not men that a Supreme Being could not have initiated the mechanism that he/she knew would result in salvation history. The Pope and the Catholic Church see no inconsistency between Darwinism and the salvation history. Then there are those non-Christians who do not believe that God ever did introduce salvation and there are many more of them than there are Christians. Then, it is possible that God just set things in motion and had more important things then micromanaging evolution on our one planet in a universe of billions of billions. Last there are those who do not believe that there is or has been a God. Of course there is the possibility that Johnson is right, and religiously he may be, but that is not subject to scientific analysis.
Innovator in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original message of the Prophet. Unfortunately there are many Muslims who believe and argue that the everything that is important or necessary for life is in the Koran. Therefore any idea or statement that is innovative is at best useless and unnecessary and at worst blasphemous. Therefore all innovation is to be discouraged and this is the main reason for the Islamic stagnation since innovation was encouraged during the first 300 years of Islam and Islam far surpassed the Christian world which itself was suspicious of anything innovative them,
"Innovator" in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original,literal, message of the Prophet. This concept which was embedded into Islamic culture, became one of the intellectual barriers to scientific and technological development of literal islamists.
Innovator in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original message of the Prophet.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist known for his works in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism.
