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#6190

Allah vs Yahweh

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Description

Yahweh isn’t real but a made up impossibility and there is no God but Allah and Muhammad saw is the last and final messenger and prophet amen

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Reason:

In short:
Pro built a sandcastle next to the rising tide of historical fact. Con didn't even have to knock it over, just point to the tide.

At length:
I'm going to take the unconventional route and explain this with a Star Wars analogy (or parable if you will...)

Pro argues Kylo Ren (the guy from the 2015 movie) is the greatest Sith Lord of all time, way better than Darth anything, and bases his case around the idea that Episodes 1-6 were never filmed. So there were no previous Sith Lords at all. In fact, Vader was made up in 1999! Then Con shows up in the Millennium Falcon as if it's 1977, pointing out that Kylo is Vader's emo grandkid, and via the birds and the bees that grandkids came after their grandparents, clearing the field to help Luke Skywalker make the one-in-a-million shot (side note: https://wiki.lspace.org/Million-to-one_chance)

Pro, grasping at straws, goes the strange route of claiming that Con must prove Kylo Ren didn't appear in Episode 7, and further that Mickey Mouse is illiterate so couldn't have possibly copied anything from earlier films. Con wisely points out that you don't need to have watched Star Wars to have been exposed to the oral tradition of it, and names multiple characters carried over directly from the previous films.

Now swap "Star Wars" for Abrahamic religions, and that's basically this debate...

Pro's non-sequitur case rests on the implication that the other Abrahamic religions were poor copies of Islam, "fabricated in the fourth century." Which is a rare example of a Retro Hoc fallacy, to which Con reminds us of this poor reasoning with "Allah is a robbed God-concept from Judaism that then had Christianity interwoven and somehow denies both." And of course, numerous sources to support his Burden of Proof (comparatively, Pro offered zero). Pro's defense of this is that Muhammad "couldn’t read or write," so could not have possibly heard of anything at all, but Con is fast to point out "He knew by ear and spoken gospel." Which is a much higher opinion of Muhammad than Pro's arguments imply.

Pro of course makes some other weak assertions, such as an ad nauseum "Allah is real" as if expecting that chant to give him the victory, but he fails to find so much as the weak evidence of anyone in the Qur'an believing that (and yes, while that common tactic is ripe for criticism for being a highly fallacious appeal, it's still far superior to no appeal at all).

To me the entire debate hinges on the timeline. Pro's case is implicitly older equals better, and then picks the newest of the batch. Had he instead argued something like Islam preserved or restored earlier ideas, that might have led somewhere. But he bet the entire moisture farm on Islam coming first (or put plainly, that the 7th century occurred before the 4th, as well as before anything BCE), so once Con pointed out that wasn't the case the debate may as well have been over.

Clear win for Con.