I've been saying Mecca is far younger than the Quran claims for many years now. Only a really ignorant person would think Mecca has ever been a center for trade - because trade is faster, cheaper and safer by water. Trade by land means protecting the slower camel trains from bandits and feeding the camels.
On the one hand, people like Hamza Tzortis and Adnan Rashid want us to believe there was a force field protecting people living in Mecca from acquiring scientific knowledge and yet they also claim Mecca was this really important city. Can't have it both ways. Either Mecca was really important or the Meccans were super ignorant.
Quran 3:96 is a similar verse to the passage you quoted from chapter two. It basically makes the same obviously false claim that Mecca is far older than it actually is. My money is on Mecca being founded somewhere around 400A.D.
On the one hand, people like Hamza Tzortis and Adnan Rashid want us to believe there was a force field protecting people living in Mecca from acquiring scientific knowledge and yet they also claim Mecca was this really important city. Can't have it both ways. Either Mecca was really important or the Meccans were super ignorant.
Quran 3:96 is a similar verse to the passage you quoted from chapter two. It basically makes the same obviously false claim that Mecca is far older than it actually is. My money is on Mecca being founded somewhere around 400A.D.
