Understand the requirement for a scientific miracle.
July 14, 2015 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 10:05 pm by paulpablo.)
I want to discuss things that Muslims who claim the quran has scientific miracles should consider.
1) If you're saying the verse is definitely revealing a specific scientific fact, then it should be the situation that the verse was not understood/believed before the scientific fact was understood/believed.
2) If there verse could reasonably be translated or interpreted to mean something not miraculous, then there's no proof the verse is miraculous.
3) If there's even a slight reasonable doubt that maybe people at the time could have obtained knowledge the verse was talking about, that also means there's no proof of a scientific miracle.
4) If there's even a slight reasonable doubt that the verse could coincidentally have predicted something, that means again there's no proof of a miracle.
5) Is the verse actually even accurately describing the scientific fact in the first place?
I'll use some verses that have claimed to be scientific miracles to exemplify what I'm talking about.
1) If you're saying the verse is definitely revealing a specific scientific fact, then it should be the situation that the verse was not understood/believed before the scientific fact was understood/believed.
2) If there verse could reasonably be translated or interpreted to mean something not miraculous, then there's no proof the verse is miraculous.
3) If there's even a slight reasonable doubt that maybe people at the time could have obtained knowledge the verse was talking about, that also means there's no proof of a scientific miracle.
4) If there's even a slight reasonable doubt that the verse could coincidentally have predicted something, that means again there's no proof of a miracle.
5) Is the verse actually even accurately describing the scientific fact in the first place?
I'll use some verses that have claimed to be scientific miracles to exemplify what I'm talking about.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
