Quote:
Originally Posted by whswhs
Anthony Flew's An Introduction to Western Philosophy, on pp. 162-163, quotes Chapter XVII of the Quran, "The Night Journey," as translated by N.J. Dawood (Penguin, 1956):
Do they not see that Allah, who has created the heavens and the earth, has power to create their like? Their fate is preordained beyond all doubt. Yet the wrongdoers persist in unbelief.
I think I may also have encountered it in Frank Tipler's The Physics of Immortality, which definitely asserted that being simulated with perfect accuracy at the end of time is equivalent to resurrection; but I don't have that book on my shelves, so I can't readily check it.
|
Thanks. I do find it a bit vague. I should check the surrounding context and scholar comments to see how much that is the commonly-held interpretation (it seems a bit of a stretch).