1. The topic
The first thing I, or anyone, should do when approaching a topic is to figure out whatever the hell it means. I'm gonna do just that.
The quran should be considered myth.
Since the term "should be" implies that is what the condition shall be optimally, this topic is essentially
Ideally, the Quran is Myth.
Meaning that essentially in order to prove Pro correct or Con false, the Quran must be proven to be
"a widely held but false belief or idea:"
I have no idea where this is from, but seeing that Pro quoted this definition entry BEFORE the first round rather than in, I see no reason why we won't use this one here.
This means that the topic is
The Quran should be considered as a widely held but false belief or idea.
2. "belief/idea"
In order to prove that the Quran is a widely held but false belief or idea, we first must prove that it is a belief or idea. Is it?
: a formulated thought or opinion
: whatever is known or supposed about something
3
: the central meaning or chief end of a particular action or situation
Well, the Quran is a book, not an "idea". We also know the Quran isn't a belief, since Islam is what is the belief. We can say that people'd believe in the Quran, but nobody would consider the Quran to be its own belief. It is not widely-held nor a belief, because fundamentally it isn't being held as one.
You can run the kritik since it exists, it exists as an idea. But the thing is: even if the Quran qualifies as an idea, it cannot be "held" as one then be “false"(You can't prove that the Quran is a false "idea", could you?). In summary, the Quran, as an idea, should probably be widely-held and true: as we all just assume that the Quran is something that exists.
3. Conclusions
- The Quran is not an idea or belief that is both widely held and proven to be false.
- The topic is proven wrong as of yet, vote CON.
Hey metal. The topic was poorly phrased (hence why I conceded in the debate) although if you take the idea I intended that the Quran contradicts science I think there is alot of texts that do, I But I don’t think all texts contradict science, I think it’d be ignorant if I said so since there are soo many religious texts
Couldn't this same topic be said about any religious text? Why the Quran specifically?
Yeah, probably should have picked different words in topic.
Seriously?