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Firstly it's not clear that he was illiterate and secondly illiteracy doesn't prevent a person from listening. | Firstly it's not clear that he was illiterate and secondly illiteracy doesn't prevent a person from listening. | ||
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===Underestimating the intellect of 7th century people=== | |||
Apologists like to assume that 7th century people didn't know or understand anything and therefore any information for them was a scientific miracle. But for example in embrology, people knew that sex is necessary and they knew that the baby then grows inside the woman, so by common sense they could understand that there must be some stages of the development of the embryo. Probably the muscles and bones had to develop and so on.. Apologists are quick to say that the people couldn't have guessed it, but they don't even try to imagine if the thoughts were really un-achievable in the 7th century. | |||
===Ignoring classical interpretations=== | ===Ignoring classical interpretations=== | ||