Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy by David Ramsay Steele

Author:David Ramsay Steele [Steele, David Ramsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780812696370
Amazon: 0812696379
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2008-01-15T10:00:00+00:00

The Origin of the Quran

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Aside from this kind of carelessness, most of Ally's 'scientific'

examples are like Bucaille's, in that they twist and contort some verse in the Quran to m ake it compatible with some aspect of modern scientific theory, then proclaim that the Quran anticipated that bit of science and therefore could only have been com posed by God.

Muslims claim that as the Q;tran reveals superior knowledge, it must have come from God. As we have seen, this is false. The scientific knowledge in the Quran is backward compared with that of seventh-century Europe. Muslim scholars did rescue some of the ancient pagan knowledge, such as Aristotle and Archimedes, far superior intellectually to early Christianity or early Islam, which Christendom left to itself would probably have destroyed. But that came later.

Yet isn't there something odd about this way of trying to prove the Quran's Divine authorship? Muslims, like Christians, believe that we're surrounded by teeming hordes of supernatural entities: angels, demons, jinns, and whatnot. From what Muslims and Christians tell us about these undetectable personages, it appears that some of them would know a lot of things unknown to ordinary humans and would have the capability to interfere in human affairs . In that case, you would expect some of them , in pursuit of who knows what demonic skullduggery, to have planted books among humans, containing information unknown to humans, thus giving these books tremendous credibility.

If the Quran had contained information unknown to humans fourteen hundred years ago, it would therefore not follow that the author was God; it could be some less exalted spirit being with less benign motives. However, the fact that nothing of this kind has ever occurred

that no book ever written contains information which could not have been acquired by mundane methods at the time of writing

corroborates the theory that there are no such spirit beings.

The Origin of the Quran

The Quran is just not good enough, as literature, as science, or as philosophy, to have been composed by an omniscient God, or even an outstanding human thinker. Indeed, any intelligent person reading the Quran with an open mind would conclude that it

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