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Arithmetics

The Quran turned out to have a unique signature:

* The count of chapters (Suras) in the Quran is a multiple of 19.

* The count of verses (Ayats) in all the Quran is a multiple of 19.
* The sum of all digits mentioned in the Quran is a multiple of 19.
* The count of the word "Allah" in all the Quran is a multiple of 19.
* The sum of all verse numbers (Ayat numbers) in which the word "Allah"
appears is a multiple of 19.
* Some chapters start with letters that have no meaning at all. When we add
the number of occurrences of those letters in their chapters we always get a
multiple of 19... So if anyone changed a single word containing those letters in
the Quran the signature would have been broken.

God says that He assigned 19 angels to guard Hell, and He made their count
"19" so that believers shall increase their faith.

Atmospheric Pressure

Atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude; The higher the altitude the more
difficult breathing becomes. Moslems say that this is what Allah says. The Quran
says that as we ascend to the sky it becomes more difficult for us to breath:

[Quran 6.125] Those whom Allah wants to guide, He opens their chests to
Islam; And those whom He wants to leave astray, He makes their chests tight
and constricted, as if they are ascending to the sky: Such is the penalty of Allah
on those who refuse to believe.

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that we
cannot breath with increased altitude?

Atoms

Prior to the Quran philosophers thought that the atom is the smallest indivisible
component of matter. However today we know that this is false. Atoms are
composed of electrons, neutrons and protons. And lately it turned out that those
neutrons and protons are made of quarks. Now if these quarks are divisible or
not it remains to be seen. However 1400 years ago the Quran contradicted the
common knowledge of the time. It stated that the atom is not the smallest part:

[Quran 10:61] Whatever you may be doing, and whatever portion you may be
reciting from the Quran, and whatever deed you may be doing, We [Allah] do
witness when you are doing it. And nothing is hidden from your Lord (so much
as) the weight of an atom on Earth and in heaven, not less than that nor more but
is (written) in a clear record (the Preserved Tablet).

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that the atom
is not the smallest component of matter?

Brain Functions

For centuries it was thought that the frontal part of the human brain handled
vision (simply because it is near the eyes). Today we know that this part handles
speech, not vision. The part that handles vision turned out to be at the rear of the
brain (view image).

[Quran 96.16] A lying sinful forehead.

The Quran says that disbelievers will be dragged from there liar forehead, that is,
the speech part where they utter lies is at the forehead. How could an illiterate
man who lived 1400 years ago have known that the front part of the brain does
not handle vision?

Cloud Seeding

During cloud formation water can become supercooled, that is, it can get below
freezing point but remain not frozen! This stage is so unstable that we can add
some catalyst molecules to trigger rain. Historically humans used silver iodide,
frozen carbon dioxide and some salts to trigger rain. This is known as cloud
seeding.

However nature uses different material to seed the clouds. Nature uses both sea
salt and land dust to trigger rain: Wind at the surface of the seas causes waves
to roll. Those waves release aerosols into the air carrying the sea salt. The wind
carries both the sea salt and the land dust to the clouds. The sea salt and land
dust cause the supercooled water to coalesce and trigger precipitation.

[Quran 15:22] And We send the seeding winds, then cause the rain to
descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water, though you are not the
guardians of its stores.

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that wind has
a seeding role in clouds?

Evolution

1400 years ago the Quran said that God is able to recreate humans from their
own semen in forms that they are unable to envisage:

(Quran 56.58-62) Do you see your own semen? Do you create it or Do We

[Allah] create it? We decreed the death among you and nobody beat Us to alter
your form and raise you in forms that you do not perceive. And you have figured
out your first form then why do you not take heed?

Change of form is evolution. Change of form from our own semen is evolution
indeed. The Arabic words "Ghair Masbookeen" means nobody beat us to it.
Since God is saying that nobody beat him to evolving man from his own semen
this means that evolution is God made (not non-existing as some Muslims claim).
There is nothing in the Quran that tells us whether Adam & Eve looked like us or
looked like homo sapiens.

Honey Bees

The worker bees, those who gather pollen and make the honey, are actually all
females. The male bees do not make honey. This was only known recently.
However 1400 years ago the Quran refers to bees that generate the honey as
females (the Arabic grammar is in the female mode):

[Quran 16.68-69] And your Lord (Allah) revealed to the bees: Build your hives
in mountains, trees and in what people build. Then eat (for females) from every
fruit and follow (for females) your Lord's enslaved paths, from their bellies (for
females) exits drink of different colors, in it healing for man. These are signs for
those who contemplate.

* For the word "eat": "Kuli" is for females; "Kul" is for males. The Quran used
"Kuli" (females).
* For the word "follow a path": "Usluki" is for females; "Usluk" is for males. The
Quran used "Usluki" (females).
* For the word "their bellies": "butuniha" is for females; "butunihim" is for
males. The Quran used "butuniha" (females).

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that those
honey making bees are females?

Ice in Comets
Water on Earth actually came from outer space, particularly from ice in comets
and meteors. When those comets enter our atmosphere the heat generated on
entry vaporizes this ice into the atmosphere. Moslems say that this is what Allah
says.

[Quran 2.164] ... In the water which Allah sent down from the Heavens and
brought with it life to Earth after being dead and gave life in it to every kind of
land animal; And in directing the winds; And in the clouds that are enslaved
between the Heavens and the Earth; [All these] are Signs for a people who
comprehend.

The clouds are enslaved between the Earth and the heavens but the water itself
came from the heavens (above the clouds). Here God is not talking about rain
(matar or wadk in Arabic) instead God is talking about water (ma-e in Arabic).

In another verse, the Quran says that water originally came from the heavens
(above the clouds) in the form of ice. There are mountains in heaven that have
ice inside them; those mountains could fall on Earth making a very bright flash:

[Quran 24.43] Can't you see that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then
joins them together, then makes them into a pile? Then you see rain come out
from within? And He sends down from heaven mountains with ice inside them;
that strike whomever He wishes or miss whoever He wishes; Its flash almost
blinds you.

God sent down from the heavens (above the clouds) mountains with ice inside
them!!! The clouds are enslaved between the Heavens and the Earth but the
water itself originally came from the Heavens (above the clouds) in the form of
ice in mountains. However today we know that this is exact because water on
Earth actually came from ice in comets and meteors.

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that water
originally came from ice in comets?

Matter in Pairs

Until 100 years ago it was thought that only man and animals were in pairs
(males and females). However the Quran said that everything from which the
land produces, man and what they could not see were also made of pairs. Today
we know that all matter is in pairs: matter and antimatter (electrons and
positrons, quarks and antiquarks...)

(Quran 36.36) Glory to Him [Allah], Who created in pairs all things that the land
produces, and their own kind (humans) and other things of that they have no
knowledge of.
How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that matter is
in pairs?

Orbital Motion

For centuries it was believed that Earth is fixed and the sun, moon and planets
revolve around it. However 1400 years ago the Quran said that not only the sun
and moon but even Earth moves in a designated path:

[Quran 39.5] [Allah] Created the heavens and the Earth in truth. He overlaps
the night over the day and overlaps the day over the night, and enslaved the sun
and the moon, ALL MOVE (Kullon Yajree ‫ )آ ي‬to a prerecorded destiny. Is He
not the Exalted, the Forgiver?

Here the Quran is referring to ALL MOVING: not only the sun and moon but also
Earth. In Arabic grammar there is difference between the singular (one), binary
(two) and plural (three or more). The reference to binary is "Kulahuma Yajreean
‫ "آه
 ن‬however the Quran said "Kullon yajree ‫ "آ ي‬referring to the plural
(three or more). Since the sun and moon are just two but the Quran refers to
three or more then according to the Quran all the three move: sun, moon and
Earth.

Moslems ask how could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known
that Earth moves?

Seas

The difference in temperature, salinity and CO2 concentrations in seas cause

water to separate into layers. This was only known recently. However Moslems
knew about it all along:

(Quran 55.19-20) He [Allah] has made the two seas meet, between them a
barrier that they don't transgress.

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago could have known that sea
water can separate?

Not only light cannot reach deep waters but also the water layers down there are
not flat but wavy, that is, the seas have internal waves just as they have surface
waves. However Moslems also knew about this long before it was discovered:

(Quran 24.40) Or like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean,

overwhelmed with waves topped by waves, topped by clouds: depths of
darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hand, he will not see it! If
Allah does not give light to a person he will not have light!

The Quran talked about internal waves long before it was discovered. Also,
sunlight cannot penetrate more than few hundred meters into the seas. It is so
dark down there that you cannot see your own hand. Moslems ask how could an
illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that seas separate, have
internal waves and there is no light down there?

Secrets of Pyramids

For centuries, Egyptologists and geologists thought that the Egyptian pyramids
were made of limestone blocks (up to 70 tons) that were quarried by chiseling
limestone. Workers then carried those blocks up the pyramids on ramps. This
building procedure was thought to be so superhuman that it made the pyramids
become one of the Seven Wonders of the World. However today electron
microscopes revealed that the blocks at the top have chemistries found nowhere
in nature. Those blocks at the top must have been baked then cast like modern
cement (not chiseled from existing limestone) Learn More.

However 1400 years ago the Quran said that Pharaoh used baked clay (like
modern cement; not chiseled limestone) to build their high rises:

[Quran 28.38] And Pharaoh said to his people: "I have not known a god for you
other than myself; so Haman, light me a fire to bake clay so that I could build a
rise high enough, maybe I see Moses' god whom I think is a liar."

How could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years ago have known that those
high 70 ton blocks were baked like modern cement?
Sex of Baby

Females have XX chromosomes, that is, they can only give one X chromosome.
But since males have XY chromosomes then men can either give the X or the Y
chromosome. This means that it is actually the males who determine the sex of
the baby (by giving either the X or the Y chromosome).

[Quran 53:45-46] And He (Allah) creates pairs, male and female, from semen
emitted.

The Quran says that it is the semen that determines whether the baby is male or
female. But since semen only comes from males then this means that it is the
males that determine the sex of the baby. How could an illiterate man who lived
1400 years ago have known that it is the males who determine the sex of the
baby?