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2015-09-01 Olde Tyme Religion

The 'Birmingham Koran' fragment that could shake Islam after carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than the Prophet Muhammad

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Parchment was often re-used because paper was so valuable. Unless there is something in the Koran saying that the pages were new or something I don't think there is anything here. Date the ink perhaps that'll prove something.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-09-01 01:48|| 2015-09-01 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 "'This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven.'"

More likely is that they mis-translated a pre-existing text from another language, which explains some of the gibberish in the Koran.

Al

Posted by frozen al 2015-09-01 11:58|| 2015-09-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 That book is as useless for Civilization as Mein Kompf

Posted by newc 2015-09-01 13:10|| 2015-09-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ...but apparently great in motivating people to conquer and loot, as in both cases.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-01 17:23|| 2015-09-01 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 the fact that this was in a newspaper at all is significant

the fact that the Daily Mail would quote a scholar

Keith Small, from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, added: 'This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven"

is astounding

Posted by lord garth 2015-09-01 18:57|| 2015-09-01 18:57|| Front Page Top

#6 So true, garth.

The end times are when the press run out of lies to print an actual truth like this is absolutely amazing.

Posted by newc 2015-09-01 23:05|| 2015-09-01 23:05|| Front Page Top

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