How old is the Quran?

This is interesting: A recent carbon-dating of a Quran finds that it may be older than Muhammad.

A copy of the Koran that may predate the Prophet Muhammad could rewrite the early history of Islam, scholars believe.

Scientists at the University of Oxford said last month that carbon dating of a fragment of the holy text held by a Birmingham library suggested that it was among the oldest in the world.

Well … who knows? The Quran, like the Bible, was established as a sacred text by force, not reason, and its history is just as obscure. The Bible was written and promulgated by the World Net Daily crowd of its day, and it’s easy to imagine that the same is true of the Quran.

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