Miracle

[bennyboy]

Yeah, what kind of a dick God would prove the Quran is a miracle by talking about a nifty-looking light/dark-blue division in the oceans around rivers (the halocline), but wouldn't bother to teach his people how to keep newborn babies from dying of disease.

In your understanding, is there anything more powerful than the mention of Expanding Universe in seventh century?

Quran does not teach how to make your life comfortable by means of physical stuff but give guidance on how to make your life better by being a moral and cooperative person.

“Nor can goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (Evil) with what is better: Then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate!
And no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint,- none but persons of the greatest good fortune.”
Fush Shilat (41)
-Verse 34 – 35-

There was plenty of science in the Greek and Roman traditions, and many ideas about the nature of reality (atoms, etc.) which were "discovered" later.  You are really cherry-picking to find something that makes Islam stand out in a positive way.  But that you have to do so should be a pretty good hint that you're grasping at straws.

The fact is that the Quran offers little that you can't get a better, more modern version of for $10.99 in your local self-help bookstore.  So let me ask you, what wonders has Islam worked in the last couple hundred years?  What great culture, what great literature, what great ideas?  If God really did favor Islam in the 7th century, then no longer. The fact is that the muslim world has stood back since about the 16th century and watched as western thinkers discovered more every year than the Quran writers did in their lifetimes. You want a miracle? Look around your room and discover the power of lightning, harnessed into tiny rivers on silicon chips that can process information billions of times a second. If there is any miracle available to us now, it is clearly science-- and it is almost exclusively western.