Lemme guess. They are going to keep finding fragments that are older and older till they find some older than the books of the bible, right?
Next—Rioting in the streets by upset Muzzies.
This will quickly disappear from the news for fear of offending you know who.
Totalitarian Death Cult Alert!
Carbon dating is not too precise. I would tend to believe the “Muzzie” version before I would believe a precise carbon date.
Prophet Muhammad as a little Bill Gates in him?
This headline is misleading. The carbon dating has a wide range from shortly before Muhammad’s birth to shortly after his death. The Koran was written down very shortly after his death so it’s possible this is one of the very first written Koran’s ever, but less likely it predates Muhammad in my opinion.
The age of the parchment is one thing, the age of the ink another.
The older the fragments of Scripture get, such as the discovery of the Dead sea Scrolls, the more both Christian and Jewish Scholars rejoice, as the older syntax and wording validate the texts that we use to this very day. The intact Isaiah Scroll is a magnificent witness to this fact.
However, when older fragments of the Q’oran are discovered, it throws islamic scholars into a tizzy, because it shows the plagiarism, variations, revisions, and downright silliness of their “holy” book.
The parchment could actually predate Muhammad but not have been written on until after Muhammad.
Standard belief is Caliph Utman ordered the confiscation of all Korans. had a new copy rewritten to HIS specifications and had them distributed to the Imans. The old copies were then destroyed.
Anyone caught with an older copy were put to death.
The mussies will riot over this, true or not.
Suddenly the left, which has long favored carbon dating, finds serious flaws in the scientific method of determining the age of an artifact.
A couple of important questions remain: is it big enough for target practice or soft enough for use in the loo?
Mad Mo, the plagiarist pedofile.
It’s common for parchment to be reused. It’s called a palimpsest, like the Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus.
Oldest Koran ‘Destabilises’ Islamic History, Scientists Say It Pre-dates Mohammed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3331295/posts