If Allah has a plan, what is the point of Dua?

[Pat Mustard]

Well I know how a lot of atheists believe in scientific and astronomical reasoning and as I said there are plenty of examples of the Qur'an that are supported by these schools of thought. For example there are 114 chapters in the Qur'an. Ch.57 is Al-Hadyd or The Iron. Arabic letters have numerical value like Roman numerals in a sense. So with the word for iron Hadyd...(Ha)H=8 (Dal)D=4 (Ya)Y=10 and (Dal)=4. Add these values together u get 26. Look on any periodic table on Fe the symbol for iron u see the atomic number is 26. Now furthermore the Arabic article Al which means the (Alif)A=1 and(Lam)L=30. Add this 31 to the value of 26 Making it 57 and Al-Hadyd "The iron" which is the chapter name and number. To take it 1 step further 57 is exactly halfway through the Qur'an..scientists have discovered that if u cut the Earth in half, exactly to its inner core, it consists of molten iron.

You know, earlier I asked you to give scientific predictions in the quran, but you ignored that question. Here though, you give the kind of shitty answer I was half expecting you to give. As I said previously, you can't go back to the quran after something is discovered scientificaly and say "Aha! (this joke is not for you Sheed, it is only for people who like using their brains at least some of the time) The quran predicted that!" because that is not how it works. In order to show that the quran predicted that Iron had 26 protons in it, either you would have to show us the passage which says the equivalent of "Iron has 26 protons in it's nucleus" or a scholar able to show conclusively, before the scientific discovery, that the relevant passages are concerned with the composition of Iron. Kabbalistic number bullshit does not cut it, not even remotely, because if you juggle any book long enough around enough you can get it to indicate anything.

Also, the earth's core made of molten iron, numb-nuts.