(August 11, 2015 at 3:46 am)Harris Wrote:(August 10, 2015 at 5:32 am)bennyboy Wrote: At best, it shows that the writers of the Quran knew some things, and that they liked to add hidden puzzles to the Quran for people to figure out and be wowed by.
They knew what? Perhaps, they knew something like:
Big Bang, Expanding Universe, Solar Apex, Orbits, Deep Ocean Currents, Halocline, Human Embryo, Chromosomes, Alien Iron, etc. etc. etc.
Unlike you, I don't doubt that the early Muslims knew a lot about the world-- especially about geology or oceanology. As for this 23 mentions = Chromosomes bullshit, you're just making stuff up.
Look, to demonstrate that something is a miracle, you have to do two things
1) Show they really meant to say what you insist they were saying (23 mentions of male and female intends to hint at chromosomes)
2) Show that they couldn't have known the things you insist they couldn't have known.
What you've done is taken a bunch of numbers, and read into those numbers meanings that the writers of the Quran are not known to have had. This stuff might be an exciting confirmation of your cultural bias, but to anyone else, it just shows how weak religious claims to science really are.
