The Qur'an is not a miracle

It is eloquent, people of that time who opposed the Prophet Mohammed were challenged to write/create a verse that is similar to it, but of course they couldn't, because it's a miracle. The guy in the video said no one can write exactly like Shakespeare or whoever, but someone can write with the same level of eloquence. However, no one can write with the same level of eloquence of the holy Quran, even if they were Arabic. The guy also mentions that not everyone talks with Arabic and that's why they can't write something similar to the Quran. Nevertheless, The Quran is Arabic because it was sent to Arabic people, Mohammed was Arabic, of course it would be in Arabic. Also, Arabic was a language that a LOT of people talked with. That also doesn't mean that the Quran was sent ONLY for Arabs.1) Let's say that I told you that there was a man who lived in Pakistan and that he had received from God, poems that were better than any poem ever written. Then I told you that this was evidence that he received these poems from a supernatural being who created everything. You would not accept this as evidence that this was proof f the Creator's existence because:a) it is difficult to objectively judge or even set criteria for judging poetry. an arabic/urdu song may bring a person to tears because of their personal experiences, and the quran's stories may not moove them at all because they cannot relate to them.b) a superior-seeming poem could just as well be the work of an intelligent alien species. just because a work does not seem human, does not mean it was necessarily written by a god. there are other options so this is not 100% proof of god's existence.- It contains scientific facts. For example, it is said in the Quran that parts of the sea/ocean does not mix, "Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses." [Quran 55:20]. It's also mentioned that the sun does move, "And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point." [Quran 36:38]. Oh and the gravity is mentioned, when did newton think about it? in 1600s. There are a LOT more scientific facts in Holy Quran. Funny that you should mention the verses about the setting place of the sun as evidence of the Quran's scientific miracles. In fact, the Quran makes the egregious error of stating that the sun sets in a pool of muddy water. Please look at the video in here. Btw, I am not a christian but I think this guy does a great job explaining how the quran makes an error here. http://www.youtube.com... Also the fact that there are different bodies of water that do not mix, is a directly observable fact, and the scientific method is not required to make this observation. - It tells things that are yet to happen/unseen. For instance, telling that the Romans will defeat the Persians. A few years after the severe defeat of the Byzantine armies by the Persians, this verse was revealed in the Quran, "The Romans have been defeated. In a land close by; but they will soon be victorious-Within a few years. Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice."[Quran 30:2-4] In 622 AD at the Battle of Issus, the Romans successfully defeated the Persians, confirming the prophecy in the Quran. I predicted that the Iraq war would be a huge disaster. I predicted correctly that the rate of inflation in Pakistan would all but eliminate any semblance of a middle class. I predicted that kobe and shaq would win lots of championships together. The bible has many predictions within it. Hindu scriptures are littered with 'prophecies' that have more or less come true. There are many people who make predictions, and in one way or another these predictions come true. This is not proof that a God revealed these scriptures, just like my predictions being true does not mean that I have the ability to see the future. The fact of the matter is predictions are just predictions. What's troubling though, is that Muhammad made a lot of incorrect predictions as well. Theyare outliend in the link below (I am not a huge fan of this website, because it does not scrutinize bible verses with the same standars as quranic verses, but they do an excellent job refuting islamic claims: http://www.answering-islam.org... ) I would also like to say that the guy in the video said that Muslims themselves don't believe things in the Quran. How did he know? he heard one or two misguided Muslims claiming that? did he ask every single Muslim is the world and they all said yeah we don't believe? I do not think he was talking about EVERY muslim the world, since he didn't go out of his way to say this. I guess he could have been more specific but I don't think any reasonable person would conclude that this guy was talking about every single muslim.