{"id":2088,"date":"2015-09-03T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2015-09-03T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:40:51","slug":"how-old-is-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"How old is the Quran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting: A recent carbon-dating of a Quran finds that it may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article4542663.ece\" target=\"_blank\">older than Muhammad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A copy of the Koran that may predate the Prophet Muhammad could rewrite the early history of Islam, scholars believe.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well &#8230; 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 <i>World Net Daily<\/i> crowd of its day, and it&#8217;s easy to imagine that the same is true of the Quran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}