(June 8, 2011 at 6:07 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: It's nothing more than retrofitting or shoehorning passages in the Koran to fit what we already know. It's like in another atheist forum I was on where a Muslim claimed that the Koran was 100% correct because it has a passage somewhere that says something like all iron comes from Allah in the heavens which he translated to mean that asteroids which are mostly iron come from the sky, or outer space. We pointed out that there is plenty of iron in the earth, and in fact the earth's core is made up of molten iron, so he shoehorned the passage to mean that Allah made the iron which formed the earth's core come from heaven. Quite pathetic, really.
the best part is when they force the translation of the text. you know, when it means "circle", it translates it into "celestial sphere" - well, here, the fact is that most surely arabic is here as hebrew: you don't have a specific word meaning "circle" and a specific word meaning "sphere", but a word that means both, to specify roundness. But the fact remains: they twist the translation from arabic to fit a scientific thing (and many times it hardly fits anything).
