It Cannot be Shown that The Qur'an is Revelation from God

I would first like to note that, as per the conditions set, I will not be rebutting to Pro in this round, but will rather be providing an opening argument. Also note that when I say “you”, I’m referring to both Con and the Audience. Opening Argument 1. ) The Existence of Many Religious Texts I would like to begin by asking you to consider the vast amount of religious texts that exist in the world today. Just to name a few, The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Vedas, The Tao Te Ching, The Qur’an, The Book of the Dead, and the Book of Mormon, just to name a few. I would like you just reflect on the probability that, out of all the religious books in existence, The Qur’an is the only one revealed by god. Now, it must be an either- or situation, because all religious texts make claims that aren’t mutually exclusive. For instance, The Qur’an claims that Jesus wasn’t crucified, in contrast to the Biblical narrative of the crucifiction of Jesus. “. .. They said, ‘We killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of God. ’ They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but the likeness of him was put on another man (and they killed that man). .. ” (Quran, 4:157) . http://www.islam-guide.com... “32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means ‘the place of the skull’). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews. ” Matthew 27:32-37 . https://www.biblegateway.com... And I hope it’s needless to say that the idea of Jesus is incompatible with Judaism, as a tenant is that the messiah hasn’t even come yet! Also, I hope that I don’t need to draw comparisons between The Qur’an and the religious texts of the East, as I hope you realize that they are very mutually exclusive. So I ask again, how can it be that The Qur’an, out of all the religious texts in existence, is the only one revealed by god, while all the other texts that claim to be revealed by god aren’t? Isn’t the possibility very low? 2. ) Finding True Statements in the Qur’an This is an argument I find many apologists for religions use in their arguments. “X and Y are true, and our religious text says so, thus our religious text must be true! ” Or “X and Y are true, and no one knew it was true before our religious text, thus our religious text is true! ” (I’m assuming that I don’t need to argue that in order for text to be revelation from god, it must be true; thus setting the requirements of its status as revelation being dependent on its truth). I hope to expose the problem with these lines of reasoning. Regarding the first statement “X and Y are true, and our religious text says so, thus our religious text must be true! ”, there is a major problem in it. Let’s travel to a library and pick up Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Now, since the book is historical fiction, it describes a great number of things accurately. . https://en.wikipedia.org... But, all because the novel contains true parts to it, doesn’t make it a recitation of history, nor does it validate the truth value of the novel. The same logic can be applied to religious texts. Now, some might claim “well, because there is truth in a religious text, it must make it somehow divine? ” Well, not really. A science textbook contains many, many things that are true. Yet, does that make a science book divine (this is a rhetorical question)? Now, onto the second statement, “X and Y are true, and no knew it was true before our religious text, thus our religious text is true! ” It confounds me as to how this can be considered an argument. I say this because, at some point or another, discoveries/ facts will be put on to paper. For example, Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica contains many things that are true, for Newton discovered a lot of them first (and I’m well aware of the tension between Newton and Leibniz). But, even though some of the book is true, all of it isn’t; for after the theory of relativity, many of Newton’s discoveries became obsolete and false. Also, if no one knew about something before it was published in a book, doesn’t mean it’s revelation from god. All it means is that, hey, you discovered something new! 3. ) The Eloquence of Arabic/ Not Being Able to Produce a Surah from the Qur’an This is an argument I see propagated by many apologists. The first one is the “beauty of Arabic”. First of all, beauty is subjective. Eloquence is subject. Let me prove it right here. I think Arabic is an ugly language. There, see, it cannot be shown that Arabic is objectively a beautiful/ perfect language. Also to the point of producing a Surah from the Qur’an. Now, let’s create a hypothetical program which generates phrases of increasing complexity using pre-programmed Arabic characters. Thus, it’s easy to reason that, at one point or another, the program will generate a phrase which is a Surah from the Quran. In fact, it would generate the entire Qur’an. And all of this from the work of man, not god.