Quran has contradictions and discrepencies.

My opponent has attacked my "poor" argument, and has told me I could have used better translations. I think its now necessary to point out that a) I dealt with this translation issue before the debate and so my opponent is been disingenuous and b) this debate is about contradictions in the Koran and I showed a few of these contradictions and will reply to these rebuttals. Remember to win this debate I only need to show 1 (one) contradiction in the Koran. Regarding the issue of translation in the comment section, I had the following discussion (edited for space). Me: Ok, so if I use the skepticsannotated Koran. Is that an acceptable translation. If yes, I will take the debate. Also, and this is important. Do I need to cite the scholars interpretation as well or do I just have to know it. After all its my interpretation that matters right, so I gather its not necessary and as such I will not cite a scholars interpretation. Opponent: All I ask, Who is the translator, when the translation was published and who is the publisher, so i can check it. If you are going to use online translation, give the link to the website. About tafsir, I just want to be sure the Pro knows the rules of interpretation. What is explicit text, what is ambiguous, abrogation, consensus, and also personal reasoning. Me: In other words. Back to my original argument. If its not an accepted (biased/apologetic) interpretation it will get thrown out as been wrong. Opponent: Dude you can easily check what is literal and what is metaphor. Minimum IQ required for it is 40. As you can see from the comments, the discussion about translating and interpretations was discussed before the debate began and was decided on. As such the debate focuses solely on contradictions in the Koran with that in mind let me continue to my rebuttals. Contradiction 1: My opponent uses versus 28 and 29 together to excuse the contradiction in the Koran by saying the idolaters spoken of in verse 28 are the people spoken of in verse 29. This is false as 28 and 29 are stand alone as 28 refers to idolaters "Verily, the Mushrikin are impure. " However 29 very explicitly is talking about non believers "Fight against those who believe not in Allah". Additionally, I want to add that mushrikin according to the resources I have looked at all mean polytheist, as such non believer. (1,2) So these verses mean a) do not let the non believer come near the sacred mosque and b) make war on the non-believer. Contradiction 1 is upheld and so contradictions exist in the Koran. Contradiction 2: My opponent has stated that I cannot understand it until I can fully understand Arabic and the conjugation words, as such I guess I cant understand if it is a contradiction. I will not take my opponents word that it is not a contradiction though as using what my opponent has said I think the Koran now says the world was created in 4 days unlike my original statement, as the last 2 should also be included in the 4 "Ask any orietalist. You don't add first 2 to the 4, it is just in the 4. " May I add here, that reading the translation provided from my opponent means what I pointed out in my first round argument "Him Who created the earth in two Days, and ascribe ye unto Him rivals? He (and none else) is the Lord of the Worlds. He placed therein firm hills rising above it, and blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for (all) who ask". Allah created the earth in 2 days, then he placed hills rising above it and counted these hills etc in four days. Just in case my opponent proposes then that this still makes six days this value would exclude the days required to create the heavens. I believe contradiction 2 is upheld, as the rationale supplied by my opponent works both ways. Contradiction 3: I am well aware of the fact that Allah does not have a child. This contradiction has nothing to do with Allah having a child or the oneness of Allah. This point has got to do with the fact that Allah is all powerful and can do anything (as the Koran sates) he should be able to have a child, but Allah cannot. This means contradiction 3 stands. Plainly said all powerful means all powerful, but if there is something Allah can't do then Allah is not all powerful. This is not word games about attributes and actions, this is logic. Contradiction 4: My opponent digs deep here using relativity as a solution to the problem of inaccuracy in the Koran regarding how long a day is to Allah. Please, could my opponent elaborate as its not stated whether its special or general relativity and I need my opponent to clarify this position. However, even using any form of relativity this argument fails as it is relative to Allah and people as the verses say "a Day with Allah is as a thousand years of what ye reckon" and " the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years. " Hence, a day is defined for Allah as either fifty thousand or a thousand years. Contradiction 4 stands. Contradiction 5: My opponent tries to mislead us into believing that the two categories are either "people who does wrong and then seek forgiveness" or "ppeople who reject God and still in the position of rejection". However if we look at the actual verses it says the two people are of one category "Yet whoso doeth evil or wrongeth his own soul," or "Lo! those who disbelieve and deal in wrong". If my opponent wants to elaborate on this, maybe it would also be beneficial to elaborate why Allah only wants to guide some people to hell "Allah will never forgive them, neither will He guide them unto a road, Except the road of hell,". If Allah is all merciful why is he guiding people to hell? Contradiction 5 stands. Contradiction 6: Here my opponent goes towards the fact that life can be created from clay minerals. Does my opponent realize that if life can arise through an unguided process like the article cited that the need for a god is void. In effect my opponent is throwing the whole Koran away here, as Allah is no longer needed and so he accepts the contradictions cited. If my opponent is not discarding the Koran then this contradiction holds. In addition, maybe my opponent would like to elaborate why the Koran still uses three different components from which man is made. The fact is the three items cited are not the same and this is a contradiction in the Koran. Even if water and dirt can sometimes make clay (or mud) why then are dust and water still separated? Contradiction 6 stands. I have shown in this rebuttal that all the contradictions pointed out in my first round hold. Remember I only have to prove 1 contradiction to win this debate. I hand the debate back to my opponent and the voters. (1) . http://www.islamhelpline.net... (2) . http://www.pwhce.org...