Sudden Jihad Syndrome

[Rayaan]

Humans are patently NOT made out of "potters clay, refined". They are made out of sequences of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. That is NOT potters clay. Your ignorant authors of the quran just made shit up when they had a question with no answer.

The Quran doesn't say "potter's clay," but only "clay," meaning "earth." This one of the problems of translating the Quran from Arabic to English by those who don't understand the language.

"We created man from an extract of clay." (Surah 23:12)

As you already know, the earth contains many vital ingredients of life such as water and minerals and everything that you mentioned above. See this article.

Humans DO NOT come from a "blood clot" like the Quran says. Flat out and OBVIOUSLY the quran MADE SHIT UP about the biology of humans.

Again, that is a mistranslation because the word "alaqa" doesn't mean a "clot of blood," but anything which is sticky. That's why some translations of the Quran use the word "clot."

Here's a clear definition of what "alaqah" means:

"Alaqah is also described in similar terms in Hans Wehr’s Dictionary of Arabic (1961: Ref: 8D) and in the great classical dictionary Lisan Al`Arab (Ref: 4D). So the real meaning of the word, from an analysis of all the meanings stated above, is anything that sticks to or hangs with something else. The word was used for blood, because of the well known property of blood (or Dam in Arabic) being sticky, as soon as its starts to dry out. The word was used for mud, because of its obvious property of sticking to the hands. The word was used for unending hatred or love, because such emotions stick to one's heart. The word was used for a small insect which sucks blood (leech), because it sticks to its prey. The word was also used for that part of the tree, which is in the reach of grazing animals, because the animals stick to that part of it."

Plus: A lecture by Dr. Keith Moore: (speaking on embryology in the Quran): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx434UE3SYw

The concept of a soul has NEVER had any proof given for its existence by those who claim it exists for ALL of the time they have claimed it existed, and to the contrary of the souls concept, science has continually proven with great amounts of evidence that the seat of consciousness begins and ends with the electro chemical process of the brain.

Here is something interesting, though:

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I don't necessarily ascribe to any particular religion, but I think through quantum physics, three essential components of spirituality can have a plausible scientific explanation. Namely, these are first, interconnectedness among living beings via quantum entanglement. Second is guidance by Platonic wisdom. Penrose also embedded Platonic values in spacetime geometry which can guide our actions, and be viewed as following the way of the Tao, or divine guidance, or whatever you want to call it. And finally, even conceivably the possibility of afterlife or consciousness outside of the body. Because if consciousness is happening in the spacetime geometry, normally in the brain, then when the blood, oxygen and metabolic energy stop driving the classical auto-pilot activity, the quantum information extending to spacetime isn't destroyed, but can perhaps leak out or dissipate in a more holographic distribution, but remained entangled. So it's possible that a soul could exist afterwards in Planck scale geometry. There could be reincarnation. I don't have any proof, and I'm not saying this necessarily happens, but if it does, here is a plausible scientific explanation.

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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfai...verse.html

Also, see this article: Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections