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<p>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.</p>
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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.

Doubting the Quran, the Hadith, and Muhammad’s Splitting of the Moon: A Probabilistic Refutation of One of Islam’s Most Striking Miraculous Claims

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Having spent many years engaging with Christian claims about miracles, especially the purported resurrection of Jesus, I now shift attention to Islamic miracle...

Doubting the Quran, the Hadith, and Muhammad’s Splitting of the Moon: A Probabilistic Refutation of One of Islam’s Most Striking Miraculous Claims

Published Online: Oct 22, 2021

Page range: 39 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2021-0016

Keywords
Islam, Apologetics, Quran, Miracles, Muhammad’s splitting of the moon

© 2021 Raphael Lataster, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Doubting the Quran, the Hadith, and Muhammad’s Splitting of the Moon: A Probabilistic Refutation of One of Islam’s Most Striking Miraculous Claims

Published Online: Oct 22, 2021

Page range: 39 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2021-0016

KeywordsIslam, Apologetics, Quran, Miracles, Muhammad’s splitting of the moon

© 2021 Raphael Lataster, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Islam, Apologetics, Quran, Miracles, Muhammad’s splitting of the moon