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Submitted by Saladin (United States), Jun 13, 2006 at 08:30

You keep repeating you CANNOT prove this, you CANNOT prove that.

And that's right. NOBODY CAN. That's why we have test of falsification.

When Einstein brought his theory of reletivity he said, look you can do these three things to prove me wrong.

You bring a theory and bring with it tests of falsifications.

Because facts can be made available and brought into consideration for evidence of your theory, you must also bring tests of falsification. Why? because you may have chosen only those facts that prove your theory and left those out which prove it wrong. If you say the earth is flat and bring the fact that when you go to the beach the ocean is one straight line on the horizon. see no curvature. therefore it proves i am right, the earth is flat. But you know that other evidence is there that proves that earth is not flat. those facts are the falsification test for the theory that earth is flat.

And here we have a book, the Quran, that claims it is from the one who created everything. Just consider the book, don't start with whose book it is or how it was collected, who wrote it down and so on. Just consider this book and it's claim. Does it just give a lot of facts to consider and no falsification tests? This challenge is a falsification test:

4:82 What, do they not ponder the Koran? If it had been from other than God surely they would have found in it many inconsistencies."

And there are more falsification tests similar to this one in the Quran.

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