(July 22, 2015 at 4:03 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(July 22, 2015 at 4:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Are you trying to convince me, Luxenberg or yourself?
You, of course.
See, here's your problem with that. In order for your story to be true there would really have to be an "angel" who found a merchant sleeping in a cave and who then imparted what eventually came to be the koran after Mo repeated it to people who were actually literate - in whatever language existed at the time - who then wrote it down.
To that, I ascribe a probability of less than 0.00000000000000000001. Which is roughly the same level of probability which I ascribe to the Joey Smith story with his "angel" and which I imagine you think is preposterous? BTW, so you don't feel picked on, I give roughly the same probabilities to jesus, moses, and Romulus and Remus, etc.
As Ehrman has noted speaking about the empty-tomb nonsense: "Is it more probable that something like this happened than that a miracle happened and Jesus left the tomb to ascend to heaven? Absolutely! From a purely historical point of view, a highly unlikely event is far more probable than a virtually impossible one..."
