Over the last decade growing numbers of Muslims have declared the Qur ” an to be a book filled with alleged scientific miracles. Numerous web sites, books and videos have been produced that proclaim Islam to be truly a religion of divine origin, citing ‘scientifically accurate’s tate ments in the Qur ” an and Hadiths. Many of these productions introduce their claims with a statement like this: One of the most remarkable things in the Quran is how it deals with science. The Quran which was revealed in the 7 th century to Muhammed (p. b. u.
h. ) contains unbelievable scientific facts which are being discovered in this century. Scientists are shocked and many times speechless when they are shown how detailed and accurate some verses in the Quran are to modern science. For those who doubt the truth of Islam, I ask you: Could Muhammad, a 7 th century desert Arab, from a poor and barbaric society, with no tradition of knowledge, philosophy and learning as the Greeks, with no author as prolific as Homer or Plato, an uneducated orphan who could not read and write, produce a book like the Qur ” an if it was not from God? This article will confront this question, as well as confront the various verses from the Qur ” an which Muslim’s cite as scientific miracles.
This article will also look into various scientific absurdities found in the Qur ” an and Hadiths that many Muslims fail to mention. Of the roughly 1. 3 billion Muslims on the planet, 90% are Sunni. Therefore, this article will confront the teachings of Sunni Islam.
The Essay on Perceptions of Muslims and Islam in the Media
On September 11, 2001 two planes deliberately crashed into and destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City, and an additional plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington D.C., with a fourth plane being forced into crashing into a field, thus missing its intended target (Anderson, Danis, & Stohl, 2009). On July 7, 2005, three separate London subways were attacked at the same time (Danis & ...
Hadith literature is, for the most part, unique to Sunni Islam, as many other sects (Shia, Submitter, Sufi) do not regard such writings as highly as the Sunnis do. Because of this, citing various Hadiths is only relevant in a discussion about Sunni Islam.
