Dr Bucaille, who criticizes the Torah in this way, claims to have learned Arabic in order to read the Qur’ān in the original language, yet he doesn’t seem to be aware that the Qur’ān also attributes such ages to early humans!…
The prophecy predicts two things—that Cain would be exiled from his country and that he would be a fugitive continually escaping pursuers.…
Obviously snakes do not nourish themselves with dust, though they do smell by taking particles into their mouths on their tongues to “taste” the air. However, “eating the dust” or “licking the dust” (Hebrew: ועפר תאכל and לחכו עפר) are simply Hebrew idioms signifying humiliation and defeat:
…“The desert tribes will bow before him and his enemies will lick the dust.”
When dietary laws declare only pork, omnivores, dead animals, blood and alcohol haram, it would only be people like Zakir Naik who lack the common sense to avoid poisonous plants and meats. When God allows Adam to eat from any tree in the garden, he is not giving a command to eat but the freedom to choose what to eat.…
The Bible is clear that God does not fatigue or need rest .”.he who watches over you will not slumber; Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”…
This argument is ridiculous, for one might as well criticize modern people for using the term “moonlight.” All the Scriptures use phenomenological terminology to describe creation—the Qur’ān also called the moon a “light” (71:15-16).…
Following the day/age interpretation, the perspective or ‘point-of-view’ established in verse one of Genesis chapter 1 is the surface of the water on earth.…
In Sahih Muslim1 and al-Tabari’s account of Qur’ānic creation sequence, we also find vegetation coming two days before the sun was created. The diagram above showing the sequence of the Torah creation period explains this—translucent light (which appeared on the first day) had been coming through the atmosphere from before this period, yet the sun or moon were not perceivable as yet.…
There are two schools of thought which reconcile the Genesis account with an old earth. Neither are simply attempts to “reinterpret” Genesis to fit with modern science, for both have their roots with commentators who predate modern science’s discovery of an old earth.…
To many people today, particularly Hindus, animal sacrifice seems too cruel and unreasonable to be a part of God’s teachings. Before we explain, let us remember two things: