Rebuttal to Matt Slick
Bible: Miracles, numerous are recorded.
Quran: No Miracles recorded.
By
Sami Zaatari
Bible
Miracles, numerous are recorded.
Qur'an
No Miracles recorded.
My Response
That is lie one, there are numerous miracles in the Quran,
let me quote them for you:
Taken from http://answering-christianity.com/origin_of_life.htm
Allah
Almighty in the Noble Quran makes very important scientific
claims:
"He
it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days - and His Throne was over the waters - that
He might try you, which of you is best in conduct. But if thou wert
to say to them, "Ye shall indeed be raised up after death", the Unbelievers
would be sure to say, "This is nothing but obvious sorcery!" (The
Noble Quran, 11:7)"
"Do
not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit
of creation), before we clove them asunder? We
made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? (The
Noble Quran, 21:30)"
"It is He Who has created man from water:
then has He established relationships of lineage and marriage: for thy Lord has power
(over all things). (The
Noble Quran, 25:54)"
"And God has created every animal from water:
of them there are some that creep on their bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some
that walk on four. God creates what He wills for verily God has power over all things. (The
Noble Quran, 24:45)"
"Protoplasm
is the basis of all living matter, and 'the vital power of protoplasm seems to depend on
the constant presence of water' (Lowsons' Text-book of Botany,
Indian Edition.
"About
72 percent of the surface of our Globe is still covered with water, and it has been
estimated that if the inequalities of the surface were all leveled,
the whole surface would be under water, as the mean elevation of land sphere-level would
be 7,000-10,000 feet below the surface of the ocean (cf. 11:7). This shows the
predominance of water on our Globe. That all life began in the water is also a conclusion
to which our latest knowledge in biological science points. Apart from the fact that
protoplasm, the original basis of living matter, is liquid or semi-liquid and in a state
of constant flux and instability, there is the fact that land animals, like the higher
vertebrates, including man, show, in their embryological history, organs like those of
fishes, indicating the watery origin of their original habitat. The constitution of
protoplasm is about 80 to 85 percent water (see also 24:30-31 and 24:45)." [3]
Taken from http://answering-christianity.com/earth.htm
Iron was sent
from Space:
Also, notice
that the in Noble Verse 57:25 above, Allah Almighty says
clearly "We sent down iron...." and He didn't say
"We created iron from earth...." Allah Almighty's claim was very accurate and
precise. "We sent down iron....." clearly states that iron was created outside
the earth and was brought down by the Will of Allah Almighty for a purpose, and that is "(material for) Mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind,
that Allah may test who it is that will help, unseen, Him and His messengers: For Allah is
Full of strength, exalted in Might (And able to enforce His Will). (The Noble Quran, 57:25)"
Allah
Almighty did mention in the Noble Quran that He sent His book
(The Noble Quran) as guidance, light, power, truth and wisdom
for those who seek knowledge and truth; see Noble Verses 2:2,
2:259, 42:52, 16:89, 27:76-77, 17:105, 32:3, 34:6, 35:31, 39:2, 39:41, 42:17, 57:16 and
many other verses.
Outside Supporting articles:
<http://www.universalunity.net/iron.htm>
This article shows the Mathematical Codes of Iron in the Noble Quran and Science, and shows how Science confirmed Allah Almighty's
Divine Claim in Noble Verses 17:49-50 about the dead converting into rocks and iron. In case the
web site is down, you can access the article on my site.
<iron1.htm>
<http://www.universalunity.net/iron2.htm>
More elaborations on Noble Verses 17:49-51. In case
the web site is down, you can access the article on my site.
<iron2.htm>
Further
proofs from brother Hasan;
may Allah Almighty always be pleased with him:
As'salamu
Alaikum brother Osama
I thought that you could benefit from the following:
In surat al7adid Allah Almighty mentions the word iron (al7adid) in the
verse 25 and this sura's number is 57..if you summed these
number up you will have 82 which is the same result that you would get from summing up
iron's atomic number 26 and it mass number (55.845 approximately 56). The word al7adid
appears in the verse 25 approximately in the middle of that verse. If you divided
24.5/29(the number of verses in that surah) you will get
0.844827586207 which agrees with the recently discovered iron's mass number up to three
significant digits ! can this be
just a couensedense or its another sign of a miracle?
.........
One other
thing: if you didn't do that i suggest that you visit islamway web site www.islamway.com
<http://www.islamway.com> and listen to lectures given by Dr.Tariq Swedan about the miracles of
the quran .. you
might find some really useful things from there...
Bye and take
care. Assalamualikum
Articles
and astronomical proofs that Iron came from space as the Noble Quran
mentioned:
First
Article:
The following
article was taken from <http://ca.geocities.com/spacephysicsisu/meteoroid.html>.
It talks about iron and "stony irons" originating from space:
Meteroid
Topics covered on this page:
·
Definition
·
Meteoroids,
Meteors & Meteorites
·
Great
balls of fire!
·
The
origins of meteor showers
·
All
about Meteorites…
·
Composition
·
Impacts
on Earth
What
are Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites?
There
are three stages to the phenomenon regarding meteors. In the majority of the cases, an
object will only make it to the second stage. Here are the stages:
Meteoroid:
A piece of debris that is traveling through space towards our
planet.
Meteor:
A brief flash of light that we see at night which is not caused by the material
"burning" with friction from the atmosphere, but instead, from the excited atoms
caused by the object's high speed.
Meteorite:
A small number of objects that are not entirely destroyed in the upper
atmosphere and arrives at the ground.
Great
balls of fire!
Pieces
of material which cause meteors to enter Earth's upper atmosphere at very high velocity:
around 260000km/h. The flash of light that we see happens when the object is around 100 km
above the surface of the Earth. If the object were to be the size of a grape, than it
would create a brilliant flash that could even cast shadows on the ground. Such bright
meteors are called FIREBALLS. The image here shows a fireball.
The
origins of meteor showers
Many
more meteors can be seen at night during a certain time of the year. The reasons behind
this are comets.
As
a comet orbits near the Sun, it loses materials, such as dust and rocks, which are given
out by the tail. These materials cause a continuous trail to form behind the comet as it
orbits. When the Earth crosses the path which a trail once was, the particles of materials
that they contain are taken up by Earth's atmosphere. These appear in the sky as a shower
of meteors. The dates of these meteor showers are known. For example: The Eta Aquarid shower (around May 4th) and
the Orionid shower (October 20th) are both cause by the trail
left by Halley's comet.
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All
about meteorites...
The
vast majority of the meteors are from comet trails, however,
these particles are usually too small to survive the trip to the Earth since they burn up
too quickly. On the other hand, much larger chunks do survive. These meteorites are from a
different source though. Rather than a result from the trail left by a comet, meteorites
are originated from asteroids. When colliding with another asteroid, pieces or chunks will
break off, and in other cases, the entire asteroid might even be shattered. The result is
a cloud of RUBBLE, which are large pieces of rock and metals from the original asteroid
that wander into the path of the Earth and fall through the Earth's atmosphere.
The
resulting meteor is incredibly bright and could even cast strong shadows. Even though a
whole lot of the meteor is burned off, some may still survive, and the resulting meteorite
gives plenty of information about an asteroid's composition and even that of the early
solar system.
This
meteorite fell on Earth on August 14th, 1992 in
Even
though most meteorites come from asteroids, there are some that are thought to have come
from comets, and other that have a composition, which is relatively close to the rocks
found on the Moon. At least 7 other meteorites are of a type that
match closely to the materials found on Mars, which suggests that there was
probably an impact on the surface of Mars. A Martian meteorite is shown here.
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Composition
Meteorites
are generally divided into three classes according to their composition:
Iron:
This is the most regularly encountered meteorite. The most common material (90%) is iron,
with a smaller amount of nickel mixed in. An example of the meteorites that were irons
were the ones that fell at
Stony
meteorites:
This type of meteorites are the most common type to fall. On
the other hand, because they are very comparable in composition to the rocks on Earth,
they are tricky to spot. Some stony meteorites contain small glassy spheres called
CHONDRULES, and objects with these spheres are known as CHONDRITES. Stony meteorites
without the spheres are called ACHONDRITES.
Stony
Irons:
These are the final major class of meteorite. They contain small pieces of stone fixed in
a body of iron.
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Impacts
on Earth
We
are very lucky today that the majority of debris, which enters Earth from space, is small
in size. However, a small fraction of the pieces do survive the journey. These are
meteorites, as we have discussed in the previous section. Meteorites usually cause not too
severe damage than a hole in a house roof or a small crater in the ground.
On
the other hand, things were not always this fortunate. During the past, Earth has been hit
by much larger objects, which have left scars on the surface. For example, some scientists
believe that the disappearance of the Dinosaurs about 65 million years ago was caused by
the impact of a large asteroid in an area now covered by the
Here
are some famous craters from around the world:
Barringer
is 1.2 km across, and is about 49,000 years old. It is possibly the most famous
terrestrial impact crater,
This
crater is less than 0.3 million years old and has a diameter of 0.9 km.
Second
Article:
This article
was taken from <http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Small.Bodies/Comets.Asteroids.and.Meteoroids>
Comets
Asteroids and MeteoroidsSome
Facts about COMETS
1.
Comets are usually named after their discoverers.
2.
Comets are wanderers who visit our solar system.
3.
Their home ground is the Oort Cloud Region
(9,300,000,000 miles from
the sun).
4.
In ancient times it was believed that comets were the souls of
heroes or kings on
their way to heaven, or messengers of
disasters, etc.
5.
Comets may be the left over rock dust and icy matter from the
formation of the
solar system.
6.
Some comets are sun-grazing (sweep close to the sun).
7.
Comet Kohoutex was seen in 1974. It may not be back for a
million years or
more.
TABLE OF RETURNING COMETS
COMET PERIOD SEEN RETURNED
Encke 3.3 years 1980 Always within range of
telescope
Tempel
2 5.3 years 1978
1983
Holmes 7.1 years
1979
1986
Faye 7.4 years 1977
1984
Halley 76 years 1910
1986
Some
Facts about ASTEROIDS
1.
An asteroid is a rocky object, smaller than a planet, that
orbits
the sun.
2.
Asteroids orbit the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
3.
During the early age of our solar system thousands of asteroids
crashed into
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
4.
There are tens of thousands of asteroids in the asteroid belt
region.
5.
Ceres, discovered in 1801, is the largest asteroid known to man.
6.
All asteroids lumped together would be smaller than Earth's moon.
7.
Pioneer 10 is the first man-made spacecraft to travel through the
Asteroid Belt.
8.
Small chunks are called meteoroids.
METEOROIDS,
METEORS, METEORITES
If
you have gazed at the night sky for any length of time you have no
doubt
seen "falling stars", "shooting stars" or meteors. These are
bits
of material which have been heated to incandescence by the
friction
of the air. Those pieces which are sufficiently large to not
vaporize
completely and reach the surface of the Earth are termed
meteorites.
The incandescent trails as they are coming through the
Earth's
atmosphere are termed meteors, and these chunks as they are
hurtling
through space are called meteoroids.
Meteorites
may look very much like Earth rocks, or they may have a
burned
appearance. They may be dense metallic chunks or more rocky.
Some
may have thumbprint-like depressions, roughened or smooth
exteriors.
Upon
closer examination most meteoritic samples fall into
predominately
nickel-iron alloy called siderites or more commonly iron
meteorites;
the predominately rocky-silicates called aerolites or
stony
meteorites. In between these extremes are those which are
generally
an even mixture of silicate minerals and nickel-iron alloy
which
are called siderolites, or stony-iron meteorites. There are
other
sub-classes which will be discussed later.
Meteoritic
samples vary from tiny dust grains to giant boulders having
masses
of several thousand kilograms. It is difficult to distinguish
meteorites
from terrestrial rocks for the samples found on the ground
i.
e. "finds". Generally, the finds are of the iron variety because
they
do appear different. However, many meteorites have been seen to
fall,
thus the "falls" are excellent sources of meteoritic samples (of
course,
it takes two simultaneous viewings from different points to
pinpoint
the location of the fall).
Estimates
indicate that perhaps as little as 1,000 to more than 10,000
tons
of meteoritic material falls on the Earth each day. However, most
of
this material is very tiny -- in the form of micrometeoroids or
dust-like
grains a few micrometers in size. (These particles are so
tiny
that the air resistance is enough to slow them sufficiently that
they
do not burn up, but rather fall gently to Earth.
Analysis
of ocean sediments show the presence of large quantities of
micro-meteorites.
Considering the proportion of ocean to land, the
majority
of meteorites should fall into the water.
Meteorites
vary in size from micrometer size grains to large
individual
boulders.
The
largest individual iron is the Hoba meteorite from southwest
The
stones are much smaller, the largest falling in
Considering
the vast infall of meteorites, one cannot help but wonder
if
anyone has been hurt or killed by meteorites. There are only two
documented
cases on record. The only incident of a fatality was a
shower
of stones which fell upon Nakhla, near
June
28, l911.
One of these stones killed a dog. On November 30, 1954,
Mrs.
Hewlett Hodges of
pound
stony meteorite that crashed through her roof. This is the first
known
human injury.
If
one compares a sampling of meteorites discovered as "falls" or
"finds", one notices a discrepancy.
*FINDS % FALLS %
Irons
409 66.0 29 5.0
Stony-Iron 46 7.5 8 1.5
Stony
165 26.0 547 93.5
(*From
Watson, Fletcher G. (1956) BETWEEN THE PLANETS, Harvard
University
Press.
Although this is an old reference, the proportions
remain
about the same today.)
Why
the difference? For the finds the iron meteorites are visibly
different
in mass (density) and appearance from the surrounding
terrestrial
rocks. The stony meteorites are very similar to the Earth
rocks
-- the major difference being perhaps a charred or melted
appearance
on the surface. Thus the proportion of meteorite types for
the
falls is perhaps a more valid proportion -- a
preponderance of
stones,
a very tiny amount of stony-iron and modest amount of irons.
What
does this mean? Where do they come from? Calculations indicate
that
near the Earth meteoroids have speeds in the range of 65 km/sec.
The
Earth's orbital speed of 30 km/sec means that they could have a
relative
speed between 30 and 95 km/sec. Although these speeds are not
high
enough to suggest interstellar origin, another fact is that plots
show
their trajectories to be elliptical and not hyperbolic, thus they
must
come from within our own solar system. Perhaps they share a
common
origin with the asteroids. The relative composition of the
meteoroids
provides a clue for a hypothesis that they or some
originated
from a planet (or planet like) body which exploded at some
time
in the distant past.
The
composition of stony meteorites is so similar to the Earth that it
does
suggest a rocky mantle. The iron is similar to what we believe
the
Earth's core is like. Thus, in 1943 R. A. Daly (in Meteorites and
an
Earth Model, Bull. Geol. Soc. of Amer. 54,401-456) proposed the
following
hypothesis for the ancestral body for the meteorites:
1. It had an iron (nickel-iron) core and a
stony mantle.
2. The volume of the core is much less than
the mantle. The planet
must
have been relatively small.
3. The force of gravity on this celestial
body was much less than
that
of the Earth.
What
evidence do we have to support this hypothesis?
1. We find both iron and stony meteorites.
2. There is a much larger proportion of stony
to iron meteorites.
3. The presence of stony-iron meteorites
shows a mixing of types.
We
shall return to meteoritic origin later.
Looking
out at the night sky one can generally see several "shooting
stars"
or meteors per hour. The incandescent light comes from the
resistance
of the air, rapidly heating the meteoroid as well as
ionizing
the surrounding air. Thus we see a trail of light falling
toward
Earth. Usually the meteoroid is completely vaporized, in a
second
or less, but the larger meteors may have trails several
kilometers
long and last sufficiently for remnants to be found, i.e.
meteorite
falls. Some of the meteors are so bright that enough light
is
emitted to cast shadows. These are called fire balls (some can even
be