Originally Posted By: Tobias
Originally Posted By: Dooley

"Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and We made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?" (Quran 21:30)

The heavens and the earth were all together, and God seperated them. How would an Arab merchant in the 6th century know this? There are many such statements in the Quran which have left scientists baffled as to how it was written so long ago, when theories on the origin of the universe were pretty unscientific.

The parting was in fact from 1500 years before the Quran, in the Enuma Elish from Babylon where Marduk parted the waters with his sword, and created the dry land. Muhammed could well have known this myth.


Muhammad just left out the parts about forming the world out of the body parts of the goddess Tiamat, who gave birth to the gods, dragons, scorpion-men, fish-men, and giant sea serpents.

The claim of the Quran is that God has always been communicating to humans through His prophets. The older books (like the Bible) were distorted and tampered with, so they are no longer reliable. The fact that some of the stories exist in older manuscripts, does not disprove the legitimacy of the newer ones.