Doubting the Quran, the Hadith, and Muhammad’s Splitting of the Moon: A Probabilistic Refutation of One of Islam’s Most Striking Miraculous Claims
Having spent many years engaging with Christian claims about miracles, especially the purported resurrection of Jesus, I now shift attention to Islamic miracle claims, the most striking of which seems to me to be Muhammad’s alleged splitting of the moon. I explain, in a Bayesian fashion, why this al...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
2021
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Perichoresis
Jahr: 2021, Band: 19, Heft: 3, Seiten: 39-47 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus BJ Islam NAB Fundamentaltheologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Muhammad’s splitting of the moon
B Islam B Miracles B Quran B Apologetics |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Having spent many years engaging with Christian claims about miracles, especially the purported resurrection of Jesus, I now shift attention to Islamic miracle claims, the most striking of which seems to me to be Muhammad’s alleged splitting of the moon. I explain, in a Bayesian fashion, why this almost certainly did not happen. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-7308 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2021-0016 |