Noah in the Bible & Quran-Unnaturally Long Lifespans & Contradiction!

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Noah in the Bible & Quran-Unnaturally Long Lifespans & Contradiction!
OP - May 29, 2009, 12:59 PM

Both the Bible & Quran agree on one point-Noah lived for almost a millennia. Has any human ever lived so long? Wouldn't fossilized remains of such long living humans have been found by now if humans had truly lived so long?

Wouldn't their organs have to be significantly different from ours that their bodies' decay far more slowly than ours? Where are such human remains found?

Anyway, there is one area where Bible & Quran disagree, how long Noah lived before the flood. Bible says 600 years, Quran says 950.

Quran
029.014
YUSUFALI: We (once) sent Noah to his people, and he tarried among them a thousand years less fifty: but the Deluge overwhelmed them while they (persisted in) sin.

PICKTHAL: And verily we sent Noah (as Our messenger) unto his folk, and he continued with them for a thousand years save fifty years; and the flood engulfed them, for they were wrong-doers.

SHAKIR: And certainly We sent Nuh to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty years. And the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust.

Bible
Genesis 9:28-29
28 After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

Thus, in the Bible Noah lived with his people with 600 years-after the flood he lived 350 years.

In the Quran, Noah lived with his people for the entire 950 years, obviously the flood killed them so he couldn't live with them post flood.

The Quran also doesn't tell us much of what happened to Noah after the flood, unlike the Bible which says that Noah & his sons were asked to replenish the Earth.

So how long did Noah Meister exactly live pre flood?

600 or 950?

Seems Muhammad got things wrong in his inclusion of Biblical accounts!

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Reply #1 - May 29, 2009, 02:21 PM

Is this an Islamic contradiction anyone? i.e. The old testament contradicting the Quran (as both books are to be accepted as the truth by Islam) ?

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Reply #2 - May 29, 2009, 02:28 PM

I thought muslims believed that the Bible had been corrupted.

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Reply #3 - May 29, 2009, 05:40 PM

Well, the Bible comes first, so what the Bible says should ideally have been true, but Muslims will no doubt try to explain it away by claiming it as corrupted.

The later covenant between Noah & God is also not mentioned in the Quran, that too will be explained away as a corruption, but it really seems that Muhammad had learnt the part which said that Noah lived a total of 950 years from the Jews Genesis 9:29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died, he hadn't learnt that he lived 600 years pre flood & 350 post flood!

In any case the Quran is supposed to be preserved in a guarded tablet Sura 85.22 & is to be taken literally-how does a human live to near a millennia?

Have any such fossils of humans been discovered that indicate they lived so long?

What were the internal organs of these humans that allowed them to survive for a millennia?

Or did they have better healthcare back in those days?

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Reply #4 - May 29, 2009, 06:00 PM

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Or did they have better healthcare back in those days?

That must be it. They had flies wings and camel's urine, and of course, prayer.

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Reply #5 - May 29, 2009, 10:06 PM

What about the height of adam and eve? that's also an unverifiable claim of Islams, that adam and eve and the people of that time were giants compared to the rest of us. 50/60 cubits high which apparantly is very very very tall.

How is it we have unearthed dinosaur bones and fossils that predate humanity by thousands and thousands of years and yet not one giant humans body?

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Reply #6 - June 01, 2009, 03:49 PM

Noah is my hero.
When he and his family found dry land,
he pissed all the animals off.
Then planted a vineyard.
"My type of guy"

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Reply #7 - June 01, 2009, 03:53 PM

Quote from: Charles on June 01, 2009, 03:49 PM
Noah is my hero.
When he and his family found dry land,
he pissed all the animals off.
Then planted a vineyard.
"My type of guy"

Nice to see they let you for a bit.

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