His books and orations are full of such scientific mistakes. It is wrong, the fact being that 2.7 is the average specific gravity of the rocks of the lithosphere. (He does not mention any units of thickness here). He quotes that the thickness of earth and that of mountains on it is 2.7. Similarly he quotes scientific data in quite a misleading and erroneous way. It will start moving away from the earth. As a matter of fact, if force of gravity is no longer there, the moon will cease to orbit around the earth. It is perfectly in contradiction to what science claims. On another occasion he maintains that if the force of gravity ceases to exist, the moon and the earth will collide. For example in his book, Pas-e-Hijab, he claims that in the galaxies other than ours, the faculty of human senses ceases to exist. He frequently refers to scientific facts, but quotes them erroneously. Professor Akhtar is also criticized for expressing such notions, which are not correct scientifically. Quran is not fallible, according to Muslim belief. All scientific theories are fallible and subject to a constant change. Secondly what they say are not falsifiable. On the other hand, when Quran and Hadith narrate something about the universe, they narrate in allegorical way. The basic flaw in this approach is failing to appreciate that all scientific theories are rigorous as well as falsifiable. Many a times, Prof Akhtar will try to show that modern scientific theories can be inferred from Quran and Hadith.
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