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Contradictions in the Qur'an: Everything in Pairs? Paid Members Public
Qur'an Contradiction: Everything in Pairs? The Qur'an makes the following statement: And of every thing We have created pairs: That ye may receive instruction. -- Sura 51:49 And in his commentary on this verse Yusuf Ali writes: All things are in twos: sex in plants
Qur'an Difficulty: Thinking located in the breasts? Paid Members Public
Qur'an Difficulty: Thinking located in the breasts? Surely He knows well all the thoughts within the breasts. -- Sura 11:5 Die in your rage; God knows the thoughts in the breasts. -- Sura 3:119 The above is Arberry's translation. Yusuf Ali translates "heart&
Qur'an Difficulty: Mountains and Earthquakes Paid Members Public
Qur'an Difficulty: Mountains and Earthquakes The Prophets (Al-Anbiya') 21:31, Middle Meccan, ``And We have set on the earth firm mountains, lest it should shake with them...'' The Bee (Al-Nahl) 16:15, Late Meccan, ``And He has cast onto the earth firm mountains lest it
Contradictions in the Qur'an: The Place of Sun rise and Sun set Paid Members Public
Qur'an & Science Problem: The place of Sun rise and Sun set Till, when he [the traveller Zul-qarnain] reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it going down into a muddy spring, ... -- Sura Sura 18:86 Till, when he reached the rising-place of the sun, he
Contradictions in the Qur'an: Embryonic Development Paid Members Public
Qur'an Contradiction: Embryonic Development Take, for example, the Quran's highly controversial statement that human beings are formed from a clot of blood. "Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made
Contradictions in the Qur'an : Conscious Mountains? Paid Members Public
Qur'an Contradiction: Conscious Mountains? How can mountains both be able to "refuse the trust" and "feel fear" as Sura 33:72 says? Contradictions in the Qur'an Answering Islam Home Page
The Qur'an and the Flight of Birds Paid Members Public
How Birds Fly It has become a major tool in Muslim dawah ("invitation", i.e. efforts to convince others of the truth of Islam) to claim that the divine origin of the Qur'an is proven by its amazing scientific accuracy that can only be from God,
The nature of moonlight -- an error in the Bible? Paid Members Public
Moonlight Musings Sam Shamoun & Jochen Katz This is a brief reply to Sami Zaataris charge that the Bible contains a scientific mistake since it claims that the moon actually emits light. In the first place, the Bible writers were no more mistaken than modern writers and meteorologists today who
