(March 23, 2016 at 6:08 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(March 23, 2016 at 2:54 pm)Drich Wrote: lol... So if you were fast forwarded in time 4000 years and brought back you'd be able accurately describe the events going on, in a foreign language using words that have not even been coined in the time you wrote them down? Or would you struggle to describe what you saw by taking things familiar to you and added to them to paint an accurate picture in your own language?
Now to someone 4000 years in the future who does not know your language nor customs or even some of the things you described, would then your words not themselves have to be interpreted?
Regardless of how you justify what you're doing, it doesn't change the fact that you're doing it. If a prophecy can be interpreted multiple different ways in different time frames by different readers, then it's basically useless. To be demonstrably correct or incorrect, a prophecy must refer to a specific event (at minimum). Otherwise you're just doing retro-active guesswork, which is basically meaningless. I could do the same sort of force-fitting to make it look like Mother Goose prophesied the JFK assassination, if I really wanted to get creative. This is the same kind of garbage Muslims bring me when they try to say that the Koran references the Big Bang.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I also want to add: the verses which muslims claim to be proof of the Big Bang in the Qur'an is actually very very similiar to verses from a Sumerian creation story that existed long before Christianity and Islam. It ruins the idea that the Qur'an is actually God's words and that it was a prediction. It was just Sumerian nonsense added into the Qur'an.
