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* Like in the "Mind and light both appear 49 times", where they counted both the words ''noor'' and ''muneer'' as "light" (although the word ''muneer'' is rather translated as "illuminating"). | * Like in the "Mind and light both appear 49 times", where they counted both the words ''noor'' and ''muneer'' as "light" (although the word ''muneer'' is rather translated as "illuminating"). | ||
* Sometimes they even count verbs together with nouns, when the nouns don't have a nice number of repetitions. For example in the "[[Life and death word count in the Qur'an|Life and death mentioned 145 times miracle]]" they count "death" as well as "die", "dead" and other forms. An of course they don't mention this in the miracle claim. They just dishonestly claim: "The words 'death' and 'life' appear 145 times". | * Sometimes they even count verbs together with nouns, when the nouns don't have a nice number of repetitions. For example in the "[[Life and death word count in the Qur'an|Life and death mentioned 145 times miracle]]" they count "death" as well as "die", "dead" and other forms. An of course they don't mention this in the miracle claim. They just dishonestly claim: "The words 'death' and 'life' appear 145 times". | ||
====Using Phrase Count Instead of Word Count==== | |||
When the word itself doesn't have a nice number of repetitions, apologists try counting the word in a phrase, like "seven heavens", instead of counting just "heaven". Counting phrases as well makes the probability of finding coincidences higher and therefore the miraculous-ness smaller. | |||
===Selective Choice of Grammatical Forms Counted=== | ===Selective Choice of Grammatical Forms Counted=== | ||