RE: Miracle
June 12, 2015 at 10:09 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2015 at 10:16 am by robvalue.)
Even if the Quran was an ahead-of-its-time science textbook with wonderful accuracy, and then some mental supernatural claims, the first does not verify the second. All it shows is that they had some surprising knowledge, that is all. It doesn't demonstrate where the knowledge came from, and it certainly lends no credibility to other stuff in the same book.
This should be obvious to see. Imagine they had instead written a load of totally different supernatural claims down. Does that make them true instead? Do the people writing the book get to define truth?
You could draw the analogy with a person. They just told you 100 scientifically accurate facts in a row. Does that mean the next scientific thing they say is also true? You may say it's fairly likely, but you don't know for sure. You'd have to verify it. But the moment they start talking about Angels, demons, resurrections, possessions etc then they lose all credibility. No amount of confidence in someone justifies believing stuff like this which has never even been demonstrated to be possible, let alone probable. And you can't verify it like you could all the science he said.
I've said this all before and I'm sure I'll say it again and again. It's like a merry-go-round, there's only so many bodged broken arguments, and eventually they all come round once more.
This should be obvious to see. Imagine they had instead written a load of totally different supernatural claims down. Does that make them true instead? Do the people writing the book get to define truth?
You could draw the analogy with a person. They just told you 100 scientifically accurate facts in a row. Does that mean the next scientific thing they say is also true? You may say it's fairly likely, but you don't know for sure. You'd have to verify it. But the moment they start talking about Angels, demons, resurrections, possessions etc then they lose all credibility. No amount of confidence in someone justifies believing stuff like this which has never even been demonstrated to be possible, let alone probable. And you can't verify it like you could all the science he said.
I've said this all before and I'm sure I'll say it again and again. It's like a merry-go-round, there's only so many bodged broken arguments, and eventually they all come round once more.
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