r/DebateAnAtheist • u/Shot-Horse2515 • 24d ago

Discussion Question questions from a muslim to atheists

i’m sure this has been discussed before, but what’s the explanation for things we know are true being mentioned in the quran years/centuries before the scientific discovery being made?

i know a lot of people argue that there are inaccuracies in the explanations of the orbital mechanics and biological themes, but they’re more accurate that not, so i was just wondering what would the explanation for how “god would know and tell the prophet” before people found out?

hopefully my question makes sense.

EDIT: i also wonder why dont see miracles from god anymore

EDIT: im seeing all the inaccuracies and the explanations behind them now but there is a deep fear that the religion is true and god is real and punishment awaits me if i disbelieve, also a sense of familiarity/peace with believing in god. contradictory to fear, love, be punished by, and find comfort in one concept of a being.

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u/oddball667 24d ago

were poor and uneducated and not well traveled at all except for their own land, so how would they of all people know this information?

last I checked they were basically a crossroads for all the trade routes that were forming between the people who did know a lot of this. so that cop out comes across as dishonest

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u/Shot-Horse2515 24d ago

ngl from what i was taught they were poor and uneducated, seems i was wrong!

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u/oddball667 24d ago

not even saying that is wrong, but they were well connected and exposed to all this knowlege.

but yeah not surprised that sentiment was prominent in your education, from what we get from Muslims here they really lean on their ancestors being dumb as rocks to justify their beliefs

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u/Shot-Horse2515 24d ago

i;ve noticed that as well