@ Isalme
lol - you dont believe Muhammad split the moon in half?
No. And I discussed this issue with you before, or was it someone else?
Btw is there anything that could make you change your mind. Like for me a few levitating qurans with flipping pages Hogwart style, in other words what evidence/proof would it take for you believe the Quran is manmade?
False historical accounts. For example, the lack of any evidence the Israelites lived in Egypt, for generations, is unsettling but not a proof of historically wrong Quranic accounts. The utter absence of any Byzantine records of the Battle of Tabuk, where, according to Quran, Muhammed subjugated the Northern Arab tribes (who were allies of the Byzantines and shared their religion), is also disturbing. But the absence of evidence is no evidence for absence (one could *speculate* many reasons why there’s no evidence, without anyone being able to disprove any of such speculations).
I remember I watched two documentaries that were presented in such a way that would make it seem that the story of Adam&eve and Moses birth were stolen from pagan cultures.
For example, a documentary used archeological evidence to show that the story of Adam&eve first originated somewhere in Ancient Iraq (way before the time of Abraham) in a decidedly
pagan civilization. I remember I was troubled for many days after I watched it because the only explanation that I could think of is that the Quran is basing the creation story on a pagan myth. But then I realized that those archeological finds cannot *disprove* the Quranic claim that basically polytheism is born (and reborn) of monotheism, since the dawn of humanity. If we use this claim (which can’t be proven or disproven) then it’s easy to *speculate* that those pagan people were once monotheists and had prophets sent by God telling them the same story of Adam, Satan and the Garden and was still preserved despite polytheism taking over monotheism in that place. Of course, scientists are not compelled to *speculate*. They use Occam’s razor and put the issue to rest: Adam and Eve’s story is proven, according to archeological evidence, to have first appeared in a pagan civilization, way before the supposed time of Abraham.
The other documentary that handled the birth of Moses was, I believe, a DELIBERATE attempt at lying. The documentary said that the birth story of Moses (the same EXACT details, except for the time and place) is the same story of the birth of the Assyrian king Sargon, who lived 700 years
before Moses. I googled this information and to my horror everything turned out to be true. I frantically searched for more information, hoping there was some dispute regarding the date, but I found none, however, in my renewed search I found the missing piece that was needed to save my faith: the tablet on which the story of birth of Sargon dates back to 700 years
after the birth of Moses. Again, throwing Occam’s razor away, all I had to do is to *speculate* that the (neo)Assyrians, who were the neighbors of the Israelites, are the ones who stole this birth story, and not the other way around, since the only physical evidence to the story (the tablet) cannot necessarily prove that the Israeilites stole the story from the Assyrians.
Topic: Hi from on the fence muslim