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Question for atheists?
In the Quaran that was written thousands of years ago and has kept unedited, it talks of someone who stepped on an ant and how the ants body was "smashed", odd right? "Smashed" why not write "crushed"? Well. Thousands of years later, it has been found out that ants have int info structure of glass. So doesn't this make you even consider that there is such thing as a God and as religion?
6 Answers
- FitzLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
1300 years, that's not thousands. You need to get over 2 to pluralize thousand.
By the way, glass is melted solid material. Not organic in any way.
Do they really believe that?
- MarkLv 68 years ago
"it has been found out that ants have int info structure of glass"
I assume this badly-worded sentence fragment is intended to suggest that the internal structure of an ant is glass-like?
Your posting falls down fairly hard at this point. The internal structure of an ant is soft tissue, and its solid reinforcing part is on the outside, a structure called an "exoskeleton".
And even if that is what you meant in the first place, you are still wrong. The exoskeleton of an ant isn't skeletal like a human skeleton, ie bone-like. It is made of proteins like chitin and keratin, which bear more resemblance to stuff like cartilage than they do to bone, and almost no resemblance to glass at all.
The use of a verb in an old document that happens to fit modern knowledge is not evidence of a god. And while we are at it, the classical arabic verbs that you translate as "crushed" and "smashed" do not differ from each other in a manner that is nuanced in the way that you are implying.
Finally, the quran is not "thousands" of years old.
So essentially, you have demonstrated that you don't understand how conclusions are correctly drawn from evidence, and that you don't have much knowledge of the history of the quran, and that you don't understand materials science, and that you don't understand linguistics, and that you don't understand insect biology. None of this is a good start if you want to give anyone the impression that you DO understand theology.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
“Theology is ignorance with wings.”
― Sam Harris
Religious faith, on the other hand, erodes compassion. Thoughts like, “this might be all part of God’s plan,” or “there are no accidents in life,” or “everyone on some level gets what he or she deserves” - these ideas are not only stupid, they are extraordinarily callous. They are nothing more than a childish refusal to connect with the suffering of other human beings. It is time to grow up and let our hearts break at moments like this.”
― Sam Harris
“When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
- Anonymous8 years ago
"In the Quaran that was written thousands of years ago..."
That's when I stopped reading.
WHY do you people feel you need to LIE?
Isn't the truth strong enough?
Koren was written in the 500s or the 600s - I don't recall when.
But it wasn't written written thousands of years ago...
Oh, and god is imaginary.
Why don't you try producing a god instead of LYING about everything?
And you wonder why we Point and Larf at you people.
*tips hat*
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- Anonymous8 years ago
ants are made of glass?
are there any theists left who are not completely mental?