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These are predictions from Islamic Texts Muhammad having children: "To you We have granted abundance. Therefore to Your Lord turn in prayers and sacrifice. For he who hated you, will be cut-off". (Sura no. 108) --Given this, was it possible for any other than God, that eternal reality and fixed pivot of truth, to predict that matters would unfold in a sense completely opposed to existing circumstances. Defeat of the Persian empire: "The Romans have been defeated in a land nearby. But in the future they will triumph over their enemies, within a period of few years. All affairs, both earlier and later, are in the hands of God. And on the day when the Romans triumph, the believers and the followers of Islam will rejoice. God assists to whomsoever He wills, and He is Powerful and Compassionate. This is the promise of God, a promise which can not be violated, but most of the people know not". (30:1-6). --Within less than 10 years, this Prophecy of the Qur"an was fulfilled in the year 624 A.D. corresponding to year 2 A.H. How can we explain the confident and categorical prediction of the victory of a defeated people over a victorious people, in the absence of any factors pointing to the likelihood of such an event? Conquest of Khaybar and Mecca "That which God inspired in his prophet by means of a dream is true and veracious: Without any doubt you will enter the sacred mosque (in Mecca) in safety and security. You will shave your heads and shorten your hairs without any fear or anxiety. God knows what you do not know. And you will win a victory near at hand". (48:27) These predictions were made at a time when no military expert or adviser could have predicted the occurrence, given the difficult circumstances of the Muslims and the unfavorable situation in which they found themselves. The Final Outcome of Abu Lahab The Qur"an also predicts with clarity the final outcome of the life of a given individual, Abu Lahab, the obstinate enemy of Islam. It proclaims categorically that he will refuse the religion of monotheism until the very end of his life, and that for this reason his painful destiny will be to enter the fire of God"s wrath. "May Abu Lahab perish, and may his two hands be cut off. The wealth he accumulated to destroy Islam has not availed him or saved him from destruction; he will soon fall into the flaming fire of Hell". (111:1-3). The Return of the Prophet (S) to Mecca "God Who made incumbent on you the recitation of the Qur"an will return you to your birthplace". (28:85). All the afore-mentioned predictions of future events are inexplicable unless they be ascribed to the source of revelation, to the infinite knowledge of Allah (swt). Now this did come from a Islamic source, but im fairly certain your said biblic prediction came from a christian source. But really in all of these cases it is very unlikley that any (christian or islamic) prophecies actually came true. So if islam claims to have for told the future just as well as the Bible has, what reason is there for me to pick one religon over another? Again I can bring up even more biblical prophecies that never cam true. Ezekiel 30:10-11 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He and his army " the most ruthless of nations " will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain." Ezekiel predicts that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon will conquer Egypt utterly destroying it, slaying and scattering its people. In 568 BCE Nebuchadnezzar tried to conquer Egypt and Egypt survived with no apparent damage. Aahmes ruled for another generation over a prosperous Egypt and lived to see Nebuchadnezzar die. The Egyptians were not scattered or dispersed. Ezekiel 29:10-11 "therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush. The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years." Egypt was never uninhabited for forty years (look at historical evidence elsewhere) "No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will show myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God. (NIV)" Israel's neighbors today are extremely hostile towards them And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines [Mediterranean Sea[9]], and from the desert unto the river [the Euphrates river[10]]: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 1: It's almost certain that Israelites don't have 100% food, water, and health security. The fact that Israelites had infertility is documented by the Bible: Elizabeth and Zacharias, the mother and father of John the Baptist, were both "advanced in age" and thus unable to make a kid. 2: Eventually, Israel did take control of the land. If, however, the Hittites in Exodus[wp] are the same as the historical Hittites,[wp] then YHWH didn't drive them slowly from the Levant - instead the Hittite Empire rather suddenly disappeared in the Bronze Age collapse.[wp] 3: Israel's borders have rarely reached the Red Sea, and have never reached the Euphrates, which is in central Iraq. "And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more." The waters just simply never dried up Now I know it looks like im trying to convert you to muslim, but you have to atleast see that the bible contains at least one flaw. Further more with the Bill Nye video, you talked about the boat, but what about all the other evidence discussed in the video about how there is no evidence that the whole world was underwater? Plus you must also account for that all those animals would have gone extinct because having two of every animal is not a big enough gene pool to reproduce offspring. Also you must account for all the food and supplies that had to be on the ship, there was no room for it al. You wouldn't believe in this story certainly if it wasn't in the bible. After all there are stories in the Quran that are just as ridicules (and similar in context) that you totally reject as untrue. So again what reason is there to believe one ridicules story over another?