@ Jamal .....

You seem determined to confirm the stereotype of Islamic ignorance ,intransigence and obfuscation....... a pity...but it is your choice.

Still.....once more

Please answer the questions I asked......

That's 1/ do these varying quotes ("sperm" & "dust") class as contradictions...?

and 2/ Is the Allah you keep referring to , the same deity that was worshipped at the Kaaba in Mecca before the birth of Mohammed ?

I'll give you a clue...... possible answers to both questions are "Yes" , "No" or "I don't know."

So its over to you.....

I say all statements are true. Yes once there was no man. Nothing. And then he was created. And how he was created has been told. Its worth it that it was at least told 1400 years ago. And you should at least agree that all things you mentioned were used in Creation. Now can we stop beating about the bush and out of 6,236 verses you came up with creation of Man which is true and the only book that talks about it. Atleast appreciate the fact that it talks about creation which science has proved. The same website which you went to find contradictions in Quran have given answers about creation in the light of science cared to visit once?

Now I challenge you. Instead of visiting websites and try to find contradictions which have been proved wrong already many a times can you read the book yourself and point out some? Read the book and use your intellect and point out because this is the old trick of talking about creation when it has been proved to every bit. Come up with something that you yourself can find and prove wrong.
Then I'll know your intention is to seek knowledge and find the truth. First see in what context Quran is reminding you of Allah's Favors. Quran is reminding you of your creation in different ways. Allah reminds us in different ways giving examples of His creation. Try to focus on that and tell me if you find anything yourself. How can you criticize without reading the book. Skimming and scanning won't do. Read it. Try to understand and read hundred more things that have been there in the book 1400 years ago. Think. Don't let your ego cloud your judgement of goodness.

Like you said in your point earlier. You mentioned above creation of man in Quran. Point j.From semen:# 16/4 75/37 76/2 80/19.
Now please come up with verses from all the mythologies like this one. Please do.

“O mankind! If ye have a doubt about the Recreation (consider) that We created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a chewed-like lump of flesh, formed and unformed, in order that We may manifest (Our power) to you; and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term.” (22: 5) .

Then we will talk. Also tell me when they talk about creation are their books or whatever at least 50% correct. Nah. They have many Gods to start with. Gods of Son, Moon, Love and what not. More than one creators? Read them and you'll find all bizarre stuff like Man and Woman dreamt God dreaming about Man and Woman. Who doesnt know about Greek myths. If you want to believe them its up to you.

The Sumerian mythology in the link you proudly posted says the primordial union of An and Ki produced Enlil, who became leader of the Sumerian pantheon. After the other deities banished Enlil from Dilmun (the “home of the deities”) for raping the air goddess Ninlil; she had a child, Nanna, god of the moon. Nanna and Ningal gave birth to Inanna, the goddess of war and fertility, and to Utu, god of the sun.

Chinese mythology says most Chinese Gods and Goddesses are deified humans — which means they're as prone to mistakes as we are. But rather than airbrush out the embarrassments, China revels in them. We suspect that even the JADE-EMPEROR, the stern-faced Ruler of Heaven, sometimes has trouble keeping a straight face.

You want me to Continue?

As for the Miraj, If you believe in Angels. Then you must know they travel towards the earth and then to heavens in large numbers. The speed you can't even imagine.

So if you believe in ALLAH, Angels and Prophets. Calling a beloved prophet showing him heaven and hell and giving him the gift of prayers can be by none other than Allah. Believe in The Book and you'll know what is life for real.

You said yourself don't quote from the Book regarding Miraj. You don't you read about it and its interpretation. I know it since my childhood its all over the internet and in every book of interpretation and lectures are there. I gave you a one liner so that you may at least believe that if it was possible for Angels to travel faster than speed of light by the will of Allah then it was nothing as compared to that. Jesus Peace be upon him could wake up people from the Dead by the help of Allah then travelling to the heavens is the same as anything else that happens by the will of Allah. Allah will gather all of mankind from dead. What makes you think its impossible for God to call his Prophet to heavens?

Im writing a Book. Al Miraj will be there In Sha Allah. There will be so much more for atheists and other religions to ponder upon. I'll share with you. But because you insist. The Prophet Muhammad Pbuh was taken from Makkah al-Mukarramah to Baitulmaqdis Jerusalem, the journey was covered on buraq (a special heavenly horse to ride).from here Prophet pbuh ascended to the seven heavens one by one and met Prophets peace be upon them including Prophet Jesus pbuh Prophet Moses pbuh and Prophet Ibrahim pbuh. At that time, first came the command that his people were being obligated with fifty prayers, then, these were reduced to five.

Imam Ibn Kathir has, in his Tafsir, reported all these narratives and after applying the standard rules of scrutiny has mentioned the names of twenty-five Sahabah from whom these reports come. Their names are:

Sayyidna 'Umar ibn al-Khattab,
Sayyidna 'Ali al-Murtaza,
Sayyidna 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud,
Sayyidna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari,
Sayyidna Malik ibn Sa'sa'ah,
Sayyidna Abu Hurairah,
Sayyidna Abu Sa'ld al-Khudri,
Sayyidna 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas,
Sayyidna Shaddad ibn Aws,
Sayyidna Ubaiyy ibn Ka'b,
Sayyidna 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Quraz,
Sayyidna Abu Hayyah ,
Sayyidna Abu Laila,
Sayyidna 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar,
Sayyidna Jablr ibn 'Abdullah,
Sayyidna Hudhayfah ibn Yaman,
Sayyidna Buraidah,
Sayyidna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari,
Sayyidna Abu 'Umamah,
Sayyidna Samurah ibn Jundub,
Sayyidna Abu al-Hamra',
Sayyidna Suhayb al-Rumi,
Sayyidah Umm Hani',
Umm al-Mu'minin Sayyidah 'A'ishah,
Sayyidah Asma' bint Abi Bakr, After that, Ibn Kathir said:

As for the Hadith of al-Isra', there is a consensus of all Muslim on it. Only heretics and atheists have denied it. (Ibn Kathir)

The testimony of a non-Muslims about the event of Mi'raj

It appears in Tafsir ibn Kathir that Hafiz Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani, in his book, Da la'il al-Nubuwwah , has reported a narrative from Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi on the authority of Muhammad ibn 'Amr al-Waqidi *(RA) giving details of the event as follows:

The Holy Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) sent Sayyidna Dihyah ibn Khallfah (RA) with a blessed letter from him to the Roman Emperor, Caesar. After that, he has given a detailed account of how Sayyidna Dihyah reached the Emperor, delivered the letter, and how intelligent he was in his mission (an event present in the Sahih of al-B'ukhari as well as in all trustworthy books of Ahadith). Towards the end of it, it has been reported that Hiraql, the Roman Emperor, once he had read the blessed letter, ordered that all Arab traders who were visiting the country at that time should be assembled together. He wanted to investigate into the background of the Holy Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam). The royal order was carried out. Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and those with him visiting Syria at that time with their famous trade caravan were presented before the Emperor. Details of the questions asked by the Emperor are present in the Sahih of al-Bukhari and Muslim, as well as elsewhere. Abu Sufyan was really eager to use this occasion to say things about the Holy Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) which show his insignificance. But, says Abu Sufyan : Nothing stopped me from doing that except that I may slip and say something which turns out to be a lie and I stand disgraced in the eyes of the Emperor and my own comrades keep taunting me for being a liar. Certainly, then it occurred to me that I should relate the event of Mi'raj before him. The Emperor would himself conclude from it that it was a lie. So, I said: I shall describe before you what he claims to have happened to him regarding which you will yourself realize that it was a lie. Hiraql asked:

What event is that? Abu Sufyan said: This claimant of prophet-hood says that, one night, he left Makkah al-Mukarramah, reached this Masjid Baytul-maqdis of yours and, then, within that night, before dawn, he returned to us in Makkah al-Mukarramah!

At that time, the leading scholar of Elia' (Baytul-maqdis) was standing close to Hiraql, the Roman Emperor. He disclosed that he knew that night. The Emperor turned to him and inquired as to how did he come to know about it. He submitted that, as a matter of habit, he would not sleep at night until he had closed all gates of Baytul-maqdis. That night he habitually closed all gates but one which would not close despite his effort. He summoned his staff. They all tried but they too failed to close it. The panels of the gate remained simply unmoved from their place. It seemed as if they were trying to move some mountain. Rendered helpless, he called technicians and carpenters. They looked at the gate and decided that the weight of the building has come to rest on the panels of the gate. There was no way it could be closed before morning. When morning comes, they said, they will see how this could be fixed. Nonplussed, he returned leaving both panels of the gate ajar. As soon as it was morning, he came back to the gate where he noticed that someone had made a hole in the rock close to the gate of the Masjid which gave the impression that some animal was tied down there. At that time he had told his colleagues: Perhaps, Allah Ta'ala has caused this gate not to close today because some prophet was to come here. And then, he also stated that this blessed prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) has also offered his prayer in this Masjid of ours. Thereafter, he has described further details. (Ibn Kathir, p. 24, v.3)

@Jamal...

Its all or nothing with you ,it seems....

Ok...so what we have is a tale of mohammed being transported by a super natural creature (the Buraq ,as you say ,"a special heavenly horse ")

He is taken ,in the space of one night, from Mecca to Jerusalem where he is greeted by angels (principally Gibril [Gabriel] and assorted other prophets , He is given instruction and visions etc.

Pretty standard mythological fayre..... Special journey ,sacred teachings and so on...much like Oedipus and the Sphinx..Theseus and the Labyrinth etc.

But muslims are told this is not mythic...they are told it actually happened....

There is no clear cut identification of just where these meetings took place...some say it was in the Temple...(you know..the one built by David & Solomon......or it could be the Al Aqsa mosque ,built on the site of the said Temple....

BUT...and it is a pretty big but.....there is a problem.....

The Temple was famously ,completely destroyed by the Romans about 500 years before mohammed was even born.... similarly the Al Aqsa wasn't built until around 40 or so years after mohammeds death.....

The prophet was questioned on the building he saw by his companions the following morning and gave a full description ,including the number of doors and windows etc.

This was attested to as being a true description by Abu Bakir (who recieved the title Al Sidiqi {the truthful} in consequence) saying that he had seen it during his travels.

and yet....during the lifetime of mohammed the derelict Temple site in Jerusalem was used as a sort of civic rubbish dump...the only building on the site was a decaying Greek Orthodox Chapel (the church of St Lawrence ,from memory...but that may be the wrong name)....

So another ,what shall we call it ...an "anomaly" within the Quran.....and this is before we even consider the Buraq....an equine with the head of a beautiful man ,bigger than a donkey but smaller than a mule and winged ...with a stride that reaches the horizon....

this is undoubtedly mythic in the same vein as Pegasus and Sleipnir (Odins 8 legged horse)

Watchman...

I see you have visited and consulted a lot of Anti Islamic websites recently.. here's what a Phd in History said Nebi Bozkurt

The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the first kiblah (direction that is prayed to) of Muslims and one of the three places of worship considered most sacred. In Aramaic, the Al-Aqsa Mosque is referred to as Beth Makdesha, in Hebrew Beth Ha-Miqdash and Arabic Bait-ul Maqdis, meaning "Sacred house." These names have remained with it since its establishment was later used to encompass the entire city. The name Al-Qudus (Jerusalem), which Muslims have embraced, comes from the same root and refers to the place of worship and not the entire city.

Islamic scholars agree that the place referred to in the Holy Qur'an as Masjid-ul Aqsa, whose surroundings have been made sacred, are in fact Bait-ul Maqdis. In Arabic, "aqsa" means far and the place of worship was given this name due to its distance from Mecca. According to Judaism, it existed before the world did; however it was in the heavens. God then began to create it from where his shadow was cast and it was at that point that the Prophet Adam was created. According to a hadith, this is the second oldest place of worship erected for mankind following the Masjid-ul Haram in Mecca.

Today the Kaba along with its surroundings is referred to as the Masjid-ul Haram and similarly Masjid-ul Aqsa, along with its surroundings is referred to as Harem-i Shareef. The Harem-i Shareef encompasses an area in Jerusalem whose north extends 321 meters, it's south 283 meters, it's east 474 meters and west 490 meters. This sacred location contains the Qubbat As-Sakhrah (the mosque itself) whose its maximum height reaches 30-40 kilometers and is surrounded by walls.

The establishing of the location and planning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque begins with the Prophet Davud (David, pbuh) However, Allah indicates that the place of worship will be completed by Prophet Sulaiman (Solomon, pbuh). Thus Prophet Davud would explain the situation to his son Sulaiman and order him to build the mosque, entrusting him with all of the supplies and workers necessary to build the structure.

The Bait-ul Maqdis, which is full of valuable goods, was attacked by occupiers and looters from time to time, which lead to it becoming damaged. The greatest destruction came during the time of Babylonian Emperor Buhtunnasr II and the third conquering of Jerusalem (B.C. 586). Buhtunnasr, who completely destroyed the city, took the gold embossments off of the door and walls of the destroyed temple, along with all the other valuable pillage and a large portion of the people to Babylon along with him. The Babylonian bondage, which began in this fashion ended with the occupation by the Persian Empire (B.C. 539). A Jewish leader, Zerubabbel, along with his friends, then headed to Jerusalem in order to reconstruct this place of worship (B.C. 515), a process which took around 25 years. Jerusalem, which remained under the control of Parthians for a short period of time, was seized by Herod I (also known as the Herod the Great), whom the Romans declared a Jewish King; through the help of Jews the temple was restructured and expanded. This particular phase of construction began around 20 years prior to the birth of Isa (Jesus, pbuh) and continued into his lifetime. The Western Wall (also referred to as the Wailing Wall), which is currently used by Jews for prayer as it is believed to be an original part of the Temple of Solomon, is part of the walls surrounding this place of worship which is located in the West wing of the building. The rooms referred to in the Qur'an, in which Prophet Zakariyya (Zachariah, pbuh) and Mariam (Mary, pbuh) sought refuge for worship must be located within this structure.

The temple along with Jerusalem were almost completely burned down following the conquest by the Roman Army under the command of Titus in 70 A.D.; the city was reconstructed during the time of Hadrien (117-138 A.D.) and the Jupiter Capitolinus Temple was built in place of the Bait-ul Maqdis. It is believed that this temple was destroyed after Constantine accepted Christianity.

It is clearly stated in the first verse of Surah Al-Isra' (Journey by Night) that Prophet Muhammad was brought to the first kiblah of Muslims, the Al-Aqsa Mosque before heading for his miraculous Miraj journey. Al-Aqsa Mosque remained the location for the kiblah for around 16-17 months following the Hijra (Journey from Mecca to Medina). This shows the value placed on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Prophet Muhammad had stated, years before Jerusalem had been conquered, that this mosque was one of three which must be visited for the purposes of worship (following the Masjid-i Haram in Mecca and the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina). The hadith from the Prophet, which state the virtue of prayers performed here are 50,000 times more than those performed at home alone, only reinforce its significance. Omar (pbuh), upon receiving the key to the city of Jerusalem, labored personally among the rubbles that had been left from the era of Christianity, leading the congregation in prayer in the south of the temple and then having a masjid erected there.

According to a narration from Yakubi, despite the fact that the Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik Bin Marwan is credited with construction of Masjid al-Aqsa for the second time through the use of seven years of taxation revenue, according to the ancient Greek records belonging to Qurra ibn Sarik, who served as the Governor to Egypt from 90-96(709-714), it is understood that it was Walid I who had the structure constructed. The building was extremely damaged following the earthquake that took place in 130 (747-48) and this building was only renovated during the time Abu Jafar al-Mansoor (754-775) after the gold and silver coatings on its doors were taken down and cashed in for money. The structure was partially destroyed again in 158 (775) and renovated by Mahdi-Billah.

@Jamal.....

Ok......Dr.Professor Bozkurt...said all that did he......well ,I'm not surprised...but I'll come to him in a while.....

First let me deal with the pith of your post......

In our world....that is the real world....the world where it takes a brick to be placed upon another brick or a stone to be placed on another stone in order to create a building.....

not some vague idea that a currently empty site that used to contain a certain structure prior to that structures destruction ,does in fact still contain that structure even though it was demolished and removed centuries before.....

No in the real world the site of the LATE Temple in Jerusalem was empty,abandoned ,derelict during the lifetime of the prophet of Islam.......thus rendering any claim he may have made to have seen buildings on this site to be fallacious ,false ,incorrect ,impossible.....or even a straight lie. Regardless of what Al Sidduiqi may or may not have said....

Your quoted "historian" seems to accept the Temple destruction by the Romans...but then (he or you...its hard to tell who is making the claim then goes on to say that Al Aqsa was commenced by Walid...where the sources I access say it was under the Caliph Umar that construction was begun....

In either case it was after the death of mohammed.....thus rendering it impossible for mohammed to have laid eyes upon it let alone his foot.....and ,of course he did claim to have seen it....even to counting the windows and doors as I recall....(unless you wish to modify your stance to say that it was all a dream....perhaps a divinely inspired vision....but that aint what your book says...)

Now to your "historian"....

Nebi Bozkurt wasn't it ?

Professor Doctor Nebi Bozkurt......I believe.....

As far as I have been able to find out he isn't an historian.......he is a theologian......here is his resume...

"Resume
Nebi Bozkurt was born in Mersin Silifke on 10 January 1950's. His father's name to Abraham, the name of the mother turns.

Theologians, Prof. D; He graduated from the High Islamic Institute. Master's degree and doctorate in the theology department at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences yaptı.i I worked as preachers and teachers. In 1982 he became an assistant at the High Islamic Institute. The institute took the name connected to the Marmara University Faculty of Theology. This faculty associate professor in 1997, became a professor in 2003. Religious Foundation of Turkey made writing material in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and published 3 books. Green Crescent painting competition organized by the Istanbul first, in the drawing competition held among teachers bulunmaktadır.i level in second place in Mersin Booth speaks Arabic and English, is married and has 3 children."

So a theologian.....
I wonder why you tried to imply otherwise.....
perhaps you have access to some other sources than I have ,If so I'd be obliged for a link...

Jamal, I think phd's can be some of the stupidest people in the world. citing them as an infallible authority is unwise

ok brothers friends ... kash ur question is what is god ... In every religious text it is common that one who created us ... As we r human being till now d most sensible logical creatures on earth... its a very basic question yet meaningful... yes there is something someone which has created us ... d only thing we can get answer on this is by a scientific approach which on this basis or thing has not yet developed... we can't get d answer by scientific approach as it's not yet ready 2 answer becoz we all people r talking about d postulates nd theory... nd d other way is bit strange for some one nd hard one i.e by spirituality coz there r examples incidents that we can get .... even m hindu by religion nd actually its not an religion by d way d term given by d people 2 have a identification... lets come 2 d point u can get it if u have a desire determination to get d truth coz gautam buddha got enlightenment...., swami vivekannanda who was an atheist not by that mean but was in search of truth which he got from his guru parmansha.. raghavendra swami .... there is many thing we can discuss... nd we can we can have a conclusion... m open for d response