Construction of Islam

***Reminder*** Mirza does not have to address any of what I write here in his next round. He has 8000 characters to continue his case for Islam. It is in round 3 that Mirza has to address both my R2 and R3 (4000 characters each). ***Below this line there are 3967 characters*** Pro Arguments 1. A) Koran unchanged since written i) Many texts go unchanged. Indeed, the lecherous writings of the Divine Marquis remain exactly as they day they were written [1]. This is no supernatural feat. ii) There are corruptions of the Koran [2]. But if the Koran were corrupted, he'd just say it wasn't the real thing. So it's impossible for him to be wrong. B) No contradictions in the Koran. i) But a lot of books have no contradictions... ii) It's easy to write a book without contradictions if you limit yourself to narrow propositions like "Don't eat pork", "Worship god", etc. C) The Koran is irreproducible because of its style i) Judgment of art is subjective, so even if there were a work produced just like the Koran, Pro could just refuse to recognize it on aesthetic grounds. ii) There are a lot of works no one can replicate. Particularly the Devil's Bible, which you cannot even make a copy of [3]. iii) 11.5: "Now surely they fold up their breasts that they may conceal (their enmity) from Him; now surely, when they use their garments as a covering, He knows what they conceal and what they make public; surely He knows what is in the breasts." That is a giant run on sentence. There are a lot of other awkward things wrong with the sentence. That's not poetic. I can barely read it. And half the passages in the Koran start with "And...". And no serious writer would write that way. And so we see why the Koran is unique. D) No one has ever produced a book that lasted as long as the Koran There's an older book [4]. E) Mathematics of the Koran mirror the symbol for god, and this math could not have been known back then. This math is crazy simple. It's just a scatter plot. If I get the data I'll show a better fit. F) The middle of the Koran is "iron", and so is the middle of the earth i) Iron was the "center" of early societies, used in early industrial production, machine cams, and warfare [5]. Indeed, one could easily imagine inference of an iron core by observing the existence of iron mines. ii) The other chapters of the Koran do not conform to the earth metaphor. There's no "crust" chapter. G) Other prophecies i) He doesn't actually spell them out, so I don't have to address them according to the prestandards in R1. ii) There's been 1,400 years for the prophecies to come true. That's a really long time. A lot of stuff happens, particularly with billions of people. So the fact that there's a really old book that makes predictions over an unconstrained period is unimpressive. iii) Here's a false prophecy - 23.12: "And certainly We created man of an extract of clay" But clay is aluminum silicate [6], a chemical nowhere to be found in the human body and is harmful to health [7]. iv) A lot of other religions [8] and people [9] have made correct prophecies. So prophecy can't be a sufficient condition. H) The chances of getting all these prophecies correct is below 0% i) Poker face. ii) The chances of getting half your prophecies correct are significantly higher than zero. I) Mountains stabilize the earth from shaking and they are like pegs i) Everything provides stability against external forces [11]. It doesn't take a genius to realize that a really big heavy thing might make whatever its under harder to move. See paperweights. ii) Fold and fault-block mountains are not peg-like by any stretch of the imagination [12]. Con Arguments - Fallacy of Composition Pro is attempting to say the whole Koran is true because some parts of it are true. Even if he is right about his prophecies, it does not follow that the moral teachings of the Koran are true. [1] http://tinyurl.com... [2] http://tinyurl.com... [3] http://tinyurl.com... [4] http://tinyurl.com... [5] http://tinyurl.com... [6] http://tinyurl.com... [7] http://tinyurl.com... [8] http://tinyurl.com... [9] http://tinyurl.com... [11] http://tinyurl.com... [12] http://tinyurl.com...