There are proofs supporting the belief that the Quran is from Allah

Thank you for your refutations. In this round, I will rebut my partner's opening arguments. I. HISTORICAL ACCURACIES IN THE QUR'AN I fail to see how historical accuracies prove that the Qur'an is miraculously divine. However, I'll still give a quick refutation of each argument. I will have to respond to these in the next round. However, I think that showing a historical mistake in the Qur’an is enough to bury the argument (and the Qur’an) 6 feet under: 1. The Jewish beliefs concerning Ezra a. 9.30, “The Jews call ‘Uzair (Ezra) a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they are intimate; what the Unbelievers of old use to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the truth. Nowhere in Jewish history was Ezra called the “son of Allah”, not today, not then, and not in Prophet Muhammad’s time. II. SCIENTIFIC ACCURACIES IN THE QUR’AN This was my partner’s most interesting contention, and one I want to spend a lot of time on debunking each of these “miracles.” A. OCEANOGRAPHY There are several assumptions made by my opponent: 1. No one prior to the Qur’an knew that the oceans were dark; and 2. This verse is not simply referring to knowledge known by sailors that the deeper the sea the darker it gets. The problem is, people already knew this. For proof, I bring two pieces of evidence: That is the outlet to the sea, where the deep water lies unmoved and dark' - The Argonautic, book IV 3rd Century BCE 'She plunged into the dark sea midway between Samos and Rocky Imbrus' -The illiad, Book XXIV, 8th Century BCE So, people already knew that the ocean was dark. Finally, it could have been known because of pearl diving. Pearl diving was known to have been in existence for about 1000+ years—before the time of Muhammad. In fact, these divers had to descend to over 100 feet on a single breath; which undoubtedly exposed them to waves, drowning, and the darkness of the sea.[1] Miracle? I don’t think so! B. THE WATER CYCLE First, let’s review the water cycle in the video I’ve provided in the right of the screen: http://www.youtube.com... My partner claims that the water cycle was predicted in the Qur’an; yet this is not true—not by the stretch of any imagination. Let’s review the verse: 39.12 “Seest thou not that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and leads it through springs in the earth? Then He causes to grow, therewith, produce of various colours: then it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then He makes it dry up and crumble away. Truly, in this, is a Message of remembrance to men of understanding.” According to the Qur’an, this is the order of the water cyce: 1. Allah sends down rain from the sky 2. Leads it through springs in the earth 3. Causes to grow and produce various colors: then it withers First, the fact that water drops from the sky is by no means miraculous. WE see it happen all the time. It is very easy for someone to say that something happens—not necessarily why or how it happens. Secondly, the Qur’an says that Allah sends down the rain from the sky—i.e., it comes from Allah. The problem is it leaves out the all important evaporation. Finally, the Qur’an tells us that it leads through springs in the earth and causes various colours; basically saying in a rethoric divice that rain makes the flowers grow—no miracle there. III. HIGH QUALITY LITERATURE I have several qualms with this argument. 1st) Judgment of art is subjective, so even if my partner thinks that the Qur’an is high quality literature, it by no means proves that it is. 2nd) 11.5, “Now surely thy fold up their breast 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 breast.” The above statement is a giant run on. I can barely read it! CONCLUSION Although the Quran has rhetorical power in certain places, it is by no means a first rate performance. It contains historical fallacies; scientific absurdities and wishful thinking; and contains many run on sentences. [1] De Silvia, K. M. (1995). Vol. 2 of History of Ceylon, History of Cleyon: History of Sri Lanka. Peradeniya: Ceyon University Press. pp.56 Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com... on 22 April 2012