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RE: Islam scientific miracles again
August 22, 2016 at 12:26 am
Occam's razor dude.
The simplest explanation is likely the correct one.
There are only 360 joints in the human body if you loosen the definition of joint to be something along the lines of "where two bones touch."
For example you have a several plates of bone in your skull, would you consider where they meet to be a joint? Are all of the connections in the metatarsals and metacarpals considered joints? If so you can get there.
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RE: Islam scientific miracles again
August 22, 2016 at 12:34 am
Well, I've already answered question #1.
Question #2's answer is obvious. Google's search engine is optimized for you. So if you have been looking at hadiths and Quran "miracles," of course it's going to show you more of what you've been looking for.
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RE: Islam scientific miracles again
August 22, 2016 at 12:39 am
I did, I get a Quora article as my first result, because I am a member there.
I searched "How many joints are in the human body."
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RE: Islam scientific miracles again
August 22, 2016 at 1:31 am
I always have the same answer to this.
Let's say they knew something that it seems unlikely they would know. What does that tell us about how they knew it?
Nothing. It tells us nothing about how they knew it. The source is a further claim, which requires its own evidence. Saying its "from God" or whatever is just the argument from ignorance (you can't prove me wrong so I'm right).
As it happens, they didn't know anything surprising. They knew what you'd expect a bunch of people back then to know, and the rest is people feverishly retrofitting later scientific discoveries.
And also... one section of a book being true does not imply the whole book is true either. Even if that bit was inspired by a deity.
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RE: Islam scientific miracles again
August 22, 2016 at 3:42 am
I can't help myself but to wonder if disecting dead people and analyzing their insides would've been a relatively common practice, even prior to our date.
Isn't that what the Egyptians were kind of famous for?
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I mean, with all the death, wars and disease, surely someone must've seized the opportunity and actually opened a body of a diseased person?