A knockdown prophecy

[R00tKiT]

[The Grand Nudger]

Knuckle bones and vertebrae, well represented in sorcery and fortune telling of all kinds. Look, if we have 360 joints then clearly some djinn split the moon and obviously..if we have 360 joints, it means we have to do what the djinn says.

[awty]

Anyone who had seen and studied a skeleton could have come up with the number...if they knew how to count.

Try again.

[Jehanne]

Adam did not exist, and so, at best, it's batting .500.

[Deesse23]

Have you ever considered that someone.....sit down now, im gonna debunk Islam as you believe in it, right now!......has dissected a human body (or two) by the 7th century?*
I know, it sounds totally crazy, and its of course much more likely to be magic, god, splitting moons, stuff like that, right? But still, can you even imagine someone dissecting a human body by the 7th century?

But see, thats the difference between you and a clever apologist: A clever apologist would have claimed "Muslim medicine was so advanced back then, they already knew about 360 joints. Therefore Allah!". Still insanely stupid, but at least not as stupid as your argument. 


Of course you will also fail to see that the fact of those 360 joints are not the problem, they are actually an irrelevancy. The problem is your underlying methodology to cross check your beliefs with reality. You have a belief and are looking for confirmation. Its guaranteed to lead you to false conclusions. Thank you for this very clear demontration of confirmation bias.

* google "Galen" 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[Ahriman]

Islam is not a religion to be mocked.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Islam is not a religion to be mocked.

Don’t be so silly. ALL religions are to be mocked.

Boru

[Ahriman]

Islam is not a religion to be mocked.

Don’t be so silly. ALL religions are to be mocked.

Boru

So if someone's family member died and they said something like, "She's in a better place now", you would then say, "Actually there's no such thing as the afterlife", are you willing to take it that far?

[Peebothuhlu]

"Many non-believers complain about prophecies in religious scripture being vague/imprecise/unfalsifiable...."

(1) So... a book was writen that 'Predicted' how many bones are in a/the human body?

This after MANY century's of people performing all sorts of medical (And not so medical) operations? (I.E. Roman, Greek, Egyptian just keep adding ancient empires to the list) and yet, some how, this one much later created book is some how novel?

Sorry. Not buying it.

Now, please point to a future novcel and testable prediction in such holy books adn we'll take it form there.

Cheers.

Not at work.