Question Regarding Prehistoric Stories In Quran
A ). This is partially correct that exact details of preshistoric events and those of the hereafter cannot be verified. However, as far as prehistoric events are concerned, the perpetuity of knowledge regarding several events provide another basis for their existence, the way certain incidents have been in transmission from gneration after generation. Even in the absence of Quran expounding on certain details regarding those events, they would still be known to exist without those details or atleast their plausibility would still be known. As the most prominent example, many prominent incidents mentioned in the history of Bani-Israel which are in perpetual transmission. As for the hereafter, the events cannot be verified as they will happen in our future but the basis of the concept of hereafter can be proved logically and potent arguments have been presented by Quran in this regard. Please see for those arguments: Discussion 22470 Similarly, Quran uses other evidence ranging from intuitive evidence to empirical evidence to prove its premise. Please see: Discussion 1630 B ). Many of these points have had already been addressed many times by different scholars and more abundantly over the span of past 10-15 years. Ghamidi Sahab has also addressed these points. You can ask a separate question for each point but I am sharing whatever has already been discussed by Ghamidi Sahab to the best of my memory: Discussion 48106 Discussion 58434 Discussion 60059 Discussion 75994 Discussion 91903 Discussion 85138 C ). Except for one or two prominent examples, no further examples can be provided in this regard. Just because some scolars interpreted a particular Quranic verse while getting influenced by the science of their time, this does not mean that whole premise of religion is false and this also does not mean that if they had wrongly interpreted a verse, then that mistake should not be rectified. The words of Quran are safe and intact and every person can refer to the source himself to see whether or not the arguments presented by those scholars of the past in the interpretation of those verses were correct or not. For this, I’d recommend you to watch the following discussion : Discussion 910 • Reply 916