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| The 'Birmingham Koran' fragment that could shake Islam after carbon-dating suggests it is OLDER than the Prophet Muhammad |
| 2015-09-01 |
 o. Fragments of the oldest Koran were discovered last month in Birminghamo. Carbon dating found the pages were produced between 568AD and 654AD o. But several historians now say that the parchment may predate Muhammad o. They believe that this discovery could rewrite the early history of Islam |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #6 So true, garth. The end times are when the press run out of lies to print an actual truth like this is absolutely amazing. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-09-01 23:05 |
| #5 the fact that this was in a newspaper at all is significant the fact that the Daily Mail would quote a scholar Keith Small, from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, added: 'This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven" is astounding |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-09-01 18:57 |
| #4 ...but apparently great in motivating people to conquer and loot, as in both cases. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-09-01 17:23 |
| #3 That book is as useless for Civilization as Mein Kompf |
| Posted by: newc 2015-09-01 13:10 |
| #2 "'This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven.'" More likely is that they mis-translated a pre-existing text from another language, which explains some of the gibberish in the Koran. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-09-01 11:58 |
| #1 Parchment was often re-used because paper was so valuable. Unless there is something in the Koran saying that the pages were new or something I don't think there is anything here. Date the ink perhaps that'll prove something. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-09-01 01:48 |