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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
2021
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Perichoresis
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 39-47 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BJ Islam NAB Fundamental theology |
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Muhammad’s splitting of the moon
B Islam B Miracles B Quran B Apologetics |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2021-0016 |