Whatever, Gharib. My claim is no more ludicrous than the claims which Muslims accept. You don't have any evidence either other than Muhammad said so.
You are right I don't have anything other than Muhammed said so. And you too have a right to reject that, I don't have a problem with that. You don't need to give me evidence for your rejection, but to make a claim as you did then you are obliged to provide evidence otherwise what I said stands.
Finally, an honest admission, that you are taking what Muhammad said and what he taught are based on your "faith", and not upon "evidence".
This is what I have problems with most Muslims (as well as with some Christians), that they often confused EVIDENCEs with FAITH.
They were never the same things, and they are not the same things.
Faith has always being accepting what they believe to be true, regardless of any available or possible evidence.
Faith does not require what they believe it can be tested and verified to being true.
Faith would be required to accept Muhammad's claim that an angel Gabriel visited him or that he received the Qur'an from God. You're relying on his say so, with no evidences that what claimed to be true.
You have also claimed that a verse in the Qur'an have knowledge of the expanding universe (Big Bang cosmology), but that more a matter of you misinterpreting the verse, by equating heavens to the modern concept of the universe. You wrote:
If Muhammed copied the Bible how would he know not to copy those parts which are contradictory? How did he come up with the notion that the universe is expanding, the Bible doesn't teach this, no one taught this back then. How could he have known which parts to copy and which not?
When I read the same verse, I see the original context, where heavens = "skies".
Ancient people have always described the heaven(s) as the "sky", not the "universe", because they really had no concept of the universe. And they have many names for the sky, and not just heavens. These are "firmament", "vault", "dome", and surprise, surprise "expanse".
And you are wrong about the Bible not mentioning expanding skies.
Jeremiah 10:12 KJV said:
12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
I hate the word - "heaven" or "heavens" because it could mean a number of things in the ancient and modern worlds. It could mean God's abode or where the departed soul dwelled in their afterlife, it could mean the sky or it could mean the modern definition of the universe.
The Jewish Publication Society (1985, also known as NJPS) has a better translation to this verse from Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 10:12 NJPS said:
12 He made the earth by His might, Established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding stretched out the skies.
Here is translation of Genesis 1:6-8, and you will see what I mean by describing heavens with different names, so below are 2 different translations (again, using KJV & NJPS), which you will see:
Genesis 1:6-8 KJV said:
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
As you can see the "firmament" and "heaven" is the sky, and the last verse say God called the
"firmament Heaven". Did you notice that KJV emphasised heaven with a capital "H"?
Now compare these verses with NJPS translation:
Genesis 1:6-8 NJPS said:
6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, that it may separate water from water.” 7 God made the expanse, and it separated the water which was below the expanse from the water which was above the expanse. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
As you can see the sky = expanse (NJPS) = firmament (KJV) = heaven (KJV).
I don't think you are really qualified to say what the bible do or do not say, especially if you haven't read the bible.
But I am not saying that this verse in Jeremiah means "expanding the universe"; it is just referring the heavens to the sky, as the following verse indicated.
