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BurtReynolds wrote:
Oh man, I forgot to mention that I watched O'Reilly's show before the debates. That was quite the flashback. He ended the night with this oddball gen of a quote:
"Carbon dating of a fragment from a Koran stored at a Birmingham library suggests that the book was produced between 568 and 645 A.D., said scientists at the University of Oxford..."
"Islamic scholars generally believe Muhammad lived between 570 and 632 A.D."
So, the REAL title of the article should be: "Although we don't know muhammad's year of birth or death, carbon dating suggests the worlds oldest koran could have been produced before, during, or after muhammad's proposed life span."
"Carbon dating of a fragment from a Koran stored at a Birmingham library suggests that the book was produced between 568 and 645 A.D., said scientists at the University of Oxford..."
"Islamic scholars generally believe Muhammad lived between 570 and 632 A.D."
So, the REAL title of the article should be: "Although we don't know muhammad's year of birth or death, carbon dating suggests the worlds oldest koran could have been produced before, during, or after muhammad's proposed life span."
Not quite the same ring, huh?
The spiritual version of the Quran's creation story has the various passages taking the last few decades of his life to express, and not being compiled into a codex until after he died. So, no, it isnt a "gotcha" moment. It just makes that accepted timeline that much less likely to be correct. If anything, it's probably more akin to the sourcing of the pericope adulterae...just another reminder that religious history is more religion than history.
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