The Quaran is not God's Word

"an illiterate person bringing a book with complete consistency during 23 years" "According to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations.[11] Shortly after Muhammad's death, the Quran was compiled by his companions who wrote down and memorized parts of it.[12] These codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthman's codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran known today. There are, however, variant readings, with mostly minor differences in meaning.[11]...However, the Quran did not exist in book form at the time of Muhammad's death in 632.[30][31][32] There is agreement among scholars that Muhammad himself did not write down the revelation.[33]" https://en.wikipedia.org... So Muhammad did not write the Quran, he did not bring "a book." Nobody knows exactly who wrote it, so its not true that an illiterate man wrote it. Even an illiterate person can repeat what he hears, or conjure up a religious book, so Muhammad speaking the Quran is not a miracle at all. Also, the Quran does not have COMPLETE consistency because it has variant readings. There are different readings of the Quran, and as I showed, it contradicts itself. Muslims claim that because Muhammad was illiterate, he could not have written the Qur"an, and thus the Qur'an is a miracle but, what proof has Con given us to show that Muhammad was illiterate in the first place? None. First, it is doubtful that Muhammad was illiterate. Recall that when he was being raised by his uncle, he traveled as a merchant, delivering supplies to various communities. "It is known that he became a merchant and "was involved in trade between the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean Sea."[60]"https://en.wikipedia.org... He also traveled extensively with his first wife Khadijah, who hired him to help her with her trade business. Surely there must have been some sort of written record kept to document these transactions. The merchant trade cannot exist without written records of what and how much was shipped to whom. Second, Muhammad"s illiteracy is irrelevant to the question of the existence of the Qur"an. Muhammad did not write the Qur"an; he recited it. Others wrote down what Muhammad recited over several years, so the Qur"an would have been written whether Muhammad could or could not read and write, so the argument is irrelevant. Third, the hadith includes numerous accounts of Muhammad writing. Narrated 'Ursa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death). (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88) Narrated 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah: Ibn 'Abbas said, "When the ailment of the Prophet became worse, he said, 'Bring for me (writing) paper and I will write for you a statement after which you will not go astray.' (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 3, Number 114) Thus, the claim that Muhammad was illiterate does not stand up to investigation. Moreover, it is irrelevant. Therefore, the claim that the Qur'an is Muhammad's sole miracle, and divinely inspired since an illiterate man could not have produced it, is also without merit. "which is so beautiful in original language" Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, its all subjective and doesn't prove a thing. Have you ever seen a painting that to you it just looks boring and dull but to another person its a masterpiece work of art? Some American girls dress in a way that Muslim women find repulsive even though its fashion to them, and the Muslim lady's dress to the American girls is old fashions and ugly. You can't prove the Quran is beautiful. That's a subjective opinion that doesn't prove the book came from God. Mormons think the Book of Mormon is beautiful, that doesn't make it God's Word, so no matter who thinks your Quran is a beauty, that has nothing to do with being the Word of God. As for being in the original language, the Egyptian Book of the Dead is still in its original language, that doesn't make it God's Word - the same is true for the Quran. The Declaration of Independence is still in its original language, that doesn't make it God's Word. So being in the original language doesn't prove your claim that the Quran is from God. "talks about past and future" Has Con given us any prophecies from the Quran that have been fulfilled? No. Anyone can talk about the past without being inspired by God. I was unable to get onto Con's link at first, and I was out of word space. Now Con expects this website to make his arguments for him. Let examine some of the false, made up propaganda on this website, used by Muslims to prove the Quran is a divinely inspired book: This site claims that Sura 32:5 told the 7th century Arabs what the speed of light is. "(Allah) Rules the cosmic affair from the heavens to the Earth. Then this affair travels to Him a distance in one day, at a measure of one thousand years of what you count." (32:5) Now, if that is what this verse is really teaching, why didn't any of the hundreds of Islamic scholars and hundreds of millions of Muslims who lived in the following years know that is what this sura meant? The fact that the truth claimed to be in verse 32:5 of the Quran was not known before 1989 supports the much more likely hypothesis that it is a projection of modern man into the old documents. This is just modern Muslims trying to force a modern view into their old document. It was only after scientist discovered what the speed of light was that Muslims began searching for verses in their holy book to reinterpret to match up with scientific facts. If God wanted to tell us what the speed of light was, is it logical he would choose such a roundabout way of doing so, and not just put 186,282 miles per second in the Quran? Now that would have been impressive. Why can I think of a better and more clear way for Allah to show his ability to reveal deep scientific facts that he can? Hmmmm... There is no mention in this verse of "the moon," "light" or "that angels travel at the speed of light," all of which were supplied by the imagination of modern Muslims like Pro. I dare him show me any of this in the Quran. This site didn't even give us the actual calculations, because if they did, we could see they are wrong. Here it is: The average center-to-center distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km. The orbit of the Moon is nearly circular. (That is why we see the Moon always with the same size) This means for the Moon to go a full circle around the Earth it must travel a distance of 2,415,273 km (Circumference of the lunar orbit = 2r `0; = 2 x 384,403 x 3.14159) To orbit the earth 12,000 times the Moon must travel 28,983,278,898 km (2.415,273 x 12,000). This is how much the moon travels in 1000 lunar years. Light travels at a constant speed of 299,792.458 km. per second There are 86,400 seconds in one day (60x60x24) In 24 hours, light travels a distance of 25,902,068,371 km (299,792.458 x 86,400). These two numbers are not the same. They are not even close. There is a difference of 3,081,210,527 km (28,983,278,898 - 25,902,068,371) between the distance traveled by the Moon in 1000 lunar years and the distance traveled by light in one day. This difference is over twenty times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Just to show the absurdity and the confusion in the Qur'an let us see the verse 70:4: "The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years." This verse has a similar content of the verse 32:5, but here it says that the length of the day of God is 50,000 years. This is a clear contradiction. Is a day of God 1000 years or is it 50,000 years? Does it mean that it takes 50,000 years for angels and spirits to reach God? That is awfully slow. Then how could Angel Gabriel take Muhammad to heaven and back in one night? Are these the same angels Pro says travel at the speed of light? The Qur'an is replete with contradictions and absurdities. Muhammad had found a gullible audience who gobbled everything he told them uncritically. He never thought one day his words will be scrutinized by people smarter than his benighted followers and his lies will be exposed. Things like the shape of the earth and the expanding universe were plagiarized from the Bible which already said thousands of years before there was a Quran that the earth is a circle and God stretches out the heavens. Isaiah 40:22 "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. _He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in." Pro attempts to show a contradiction in the Bible, but arguing against the Bible doesn't prove the Quran. But to answer him, Gen 2:4a says "This is the accound of the heavens and the earth when they were created." (NIV) This is a summary of Gen 1:1-2:3. Gen 2:4b-5 continues to describe the earth AFTER the 6 creation days had passed, no contradiction here. God can make the earth from NOTHING because no pre-existing material existed for him to use, but he did use DUST to make man, thus, he didn't make man from NOTHING because Dust CANNOT be the same as NOTHING. If I buy a burger with $5, I didn't buy it with NOTHING, It doen't matter if I magically created the money out of nothing. The origin of the money from nothing wouldn't show that I bought the burger with nothing. $5 isn't nothing, and dust isn't nothing. Niether is dust clay, so the Quran contradicts itself. No 50-year-old man had no right ejaculating in a little teenage girl! So even if she was 17 as you say this doesn't look very Godly. And Jesus' name in Arabic is Yasu, not Isa http://www.answering-islam.org... Out of space.