chuck010342 said:
Got em lets deal with one at a time okay?
(96:2) countradicts (16:4).
Wow. I honestly thought you could have come up with something better than this. Anyway here we go. I will post the verses for those of you who are reading along, verse 16:4 says:
"He has created man from a sperm drop;......"
Verse 96:2 says:
"He created man from alaqah..."
Before I go on let me explain what the Arabic word alaqah means. This word has a few different meanings attached to it, one it means a leech or leech like thing, two it can mean something which is suspended or clings (which fits along with the leech description, because leech's when hanging onto there host are infact suspended/clinging there), and the third most common meaning would be a clot of blood or clotting blood (mainly because of the sticky or "clinging" quality that blood has when it is clotting).
Now for my response. These two verses are merely just describing two different stages in which man is created, they both occure and are both true. If we read further into the Qur'an we find them to be listed one after the other, showing that these are not two different ways in which man is created but rather two different stages in the process of man's creation. In verse 40:67 is says:
"He it is who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a leech-like clot (alaqah), then brings you forth as a child...."
Let me apply this to another situation.
I created a cake.
I created the cake from flour.
I created the cake from eggs.
I created the cake from sugar.
And so on.....
Now all of these statements about the cake are true by themselves or all together are they not?
For this reason I see no contradiction between the verses. However, I'm sure Chuck will still find a contradiction because he is being closed minded and has already made up his mind about there being contradictions in the Qur'an and about the whole of Islam in general.