Qur'an the word of god?

[Joel]

i don't find it funny,

Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes him to figure out that we don't care what he thinks?

I give it about 5 minutes.

[Minimalist]

Overdue, if you ask me.

Sarcasm must have trouble penetrating the towel.

[Joel]

Overdue, if you ask me.

Sarcasm must have trouble penetrating the towel.

Do you think it's the same towel used to wash their feet?

[Minimalist]

Nothing would surprise me.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

They were illiterate, after all. I believe it should be "Quran: Word of dog"

Who is they? If it is Muhammad your talking about, i agree with you, he was illiterate. But, the part where you say that the quran is the word of a dog is crazy, if it was said by you for a laugh, i don't find it funny, it's complete stupidity. Please at least read my thread properly, if you have, read it again and at least take into your head what has been said, so hopefully you won't go around saying these ridiculous lies.

As opposed to being a disingenuous liar who likes to copy and paste nonsense onto forums and disregard anything that doesn't agree with your worldview, especially when those views have evidence to back them up/knock down your house of cards?

The Quran is no more useful for giving us insights into the physical reality of the world than taking a shit in the desert. In fact, that's probably one of the only times a Quran would be helpful.

[Dragonetti]

He gave up already?

That book is only good for toilet paper!

[Nine]

That book is only good for toilet paper!

Its probably terrible toilet paper. I like the whole super soft toilet paper thing, because I'm manly like that.

[Mononoke]

That article is absurd, in the completely false way it tries to apply probability theory, in how it assigns random values to items and then pretends they're correct, and in several other claims it makes.

I also have a problem with how it does not give references for any part of the Qur'an to back up what it says the book says, since that means I can't check it myself and find out if they're horribly misrepresenting it.

Further, I expect that the Qur'an makes miracle claims. Those by themselves would show that it is not scientifically accurate; they are in direct contradiction with reality.

At the time when the Qur’an was revealed, people thought the world was flat, there are several other options for the shape of the earth. It could be triangular, it could be quadrangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, spherical, etc. Lets assume there are about 30 different options for the shape of the earth. The Qur’an rightly says it is spherical, if it was a guess the chances of the guess being correct is 1/30.

Sure, sure, if it was a guess it could have been any shape (there are a lot more than 30 shapes -- in fact, the number is infinite -- so here is just one instance of the article using made-up numbers). However, it's possible to work out that it's near-spherical, and people had long before the Qur'an was written. No guessing at wild improbabilities needed.

Further, the Qur’an also mentions every living thing is made of water. Every living thing can be made up of either wood, stone, copper, aluminum, steel, silver, gold, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, oil, water, cement, concrete, etc. The options are say about 10,000. The Qur’an rightly says that everything is made up of water. If it is a guess, the chances that it will be correct is 1/10,000

First off, Living things are not made of water.

Even if they were, The Qur'an could have said that they were made of gold and been just about as right (well, that is, not right, but still), since we do contain a little bit of gold. It could have said that we are made of hydrogen (not that that element was known at the time), and since hydrogen is part of water it'd be as correct as saying we're made of water. It's also unfair to say that it could have said living things were made of stone, since it's pretty obvious that they're not. That item and many many others like it can be ruled out instantly by knowing a tiny bit about the body.

[Dragonetti]

We are carbon base life forms, but you have to take Science to know that!

[JustAnAtheist]

I'd burn the koran rather than believing all that shitty stuffs again.. it was the Koran which wasted my entire childhood & teenage lives, forcing me to believe all that craps