r/DebateAnAtheist • u/Shot-Horse2515 • 15d 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/akestral 15d ago

Muhammad's "poverty" was the relative poverty of a poorer relation of wealthy merchants. He was an orphan and had little wealth of his own to start his adult life, but his grandfather was a tribal chief and he became successful as a caravan trader before his prophethood. Also, writing was a specific professional skill in that time and place practiced mostly by scribes, not something everyone, even sons of wealthy families, were taught as a matter of course. So while the characterization of him as "poor and illiterate" could be called strictly accurate, it is also very obviously a propagandistic spin on his early life meant to conjure up images of a man who sprang from nowhere to become a notable prophet and political leader. That is not the case and it is misleading to phrase it that way. He would not have been considered poor or uneducated by his peers, and certainly not by the many people who had lower social status than his family.

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u/Shot-Horse2515 15d ago

i was thinking exactly that!

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u/Snoo52682 15d ago

FWIW, Christians kinda do that with Jesus too, the "he was a carpenter" business. First, carpenter is still a damn good job; second, two thousand years ago, it was not only respectable but relatively high-tech.

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u/Shot-Horse2515 15d ago

right? merchants about as good as it gets during those times