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 ==Quranic Miracles==
 {{Miracles}}
-Many Muslims claim that the Qur'an contains information that could not have been known to people at the time that the Qur'an was created, and that it contains within its pages many other miracles. These claims are false.
+Many Muslims claim that the Qur'an contains information that could not have been known to people at the time the Qur'an was created, and that it contains within its pages many other miracles.
 ===Georgics===
 {{Main|NATVRAE MIRABILIS ORIGINISQVE DIVINAE GEORGICAE VERGILII|l1=Georgics}}
-To show how ludicrously easy it is to prove that any ancient poetry can be reinterpreted to reveal scientific miracles, here is a satiric article that attempts to prove that the Georgica, written by Virgil in Golden Latin in the year 28 BC, contains scientific miracles.
+This article argues that the Georgica, written by Virgil in Golden Latin in the year 28 BC, contains many scientific miracles (i.e. scientific foreknowledge). Furthermore, Virgil was an ancient Roman poet and the ancient Romans were polytheists, thus the Roman pantheon of deities exist. Of course this article is written as part satire. It demonstrates very effectively how easy it is to reinterpret any ancient poetry, such as the Qur'an, and reveal so-called scientific miracles.
 ===Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an===
 {{Main|Word Count Miracles in the Qur'an}}
-One of the most popular claims of miracles is that the word yawm (singular of day) is repeated 365 times in the Qur'an, its plural and dual forms "days (ayyam and yawmayn)" together are repeated 30 times, while the number of repetitions of the word "month" (shahar) is 12. The first flaw with this is that the Arab calender consists of 355 days, so these apologists are essentially favoring Christianity. Secondly, these counts are manipulated, generally in unstated ways, to produce the striking totals. Most people do not have the time or energy to count so they just assume its true.
+One of the most popular claims of miracles is that the word yawm (singular of day) is repeated 365 times in the Qur'an, its plural and dual forms "days (ayyam and yawmayn)" together are repeated 30 times, while the number of repetitions of the word "month" (shahar) is 12. The first flaw with this is that the Islamic calender consists of 355 days, so these apologists are essentially favoring Christianity. Secondly, these counts are manipulated, generally in unstated ways, to produce the striking totals. Most people do not have the time or energy to count so they just assume it is true.
 ===The Miracle of 19===