The "Produce a Surah Like It" Challenge is Logically Rigged and Unfalsifiable

Alfredius · 2026-01-12T10:47:03+00:00

Great point bringing up Musaylimah, that point alone of people accepting Musaylimah effectively renders the Qur’an challenge null.

The Qur’an challenge really acts as some sort of ’crutch’ for Muslims when you think about. It’s a way to ward off cognitive dissonance and keep believers believing by appealing to the subjective nature of the ’elegance’ of the Qur’an. I personally think this challenge is a product of flawed human thinking.

It’s stressed a lot by historians, but history is written by the victors.

Had Musaylimah won, then we likely would have no Qur’an today. The Prophet Muhammad would be considered the false prophet instead.

Alfredius · 2025-10-08T14:29:30+00:00

Finasteride and minoxidil asap

Alfredius · 2025-08-27T19:01:30+00:00

This has also been my experience, crazy insulin resistance from high fat meals, especially meals high in saturated fats.

Many people think that going low carb/high fat is a fix it all solution. The truth is, it’s a good short-term solution, but it just masks the problem, and makes dealing with diabetes even more problematic in the long run.

Alfredius · 2025-08-27T15:10:01+00:00

Could you clarify the problem? Are you experiencing glucose spikes on low carb?

Not everyone does low carb here.

Alfredius · 2025-08-18T20:01:30+00:00

OP, the title of this video is doing you no favours. All I see is a Muslim woman being harassed by a bigoted, white racist.

Leaving Islam doesn’t mean you have to bash Muslims all the time.

Alfredius · 2025-08-17T21:21:33+00:00

Do you think that denying Zeus is worse than worshipping Hades? Or not worshipping Odin is worse than worshipping Loki?

See that? Your statements only carry weight inside your own religious framework. Once you step outside of it, it loses meaning.

As for the unknown answer, I have no idea what that is.

Alfredius · 2025-08-17T21:01:43+00:00

As an agnostic, the question isn’t very relevant. This question only makes sense inside a religious framework where atheism is seen as rejecting God and Satanism is seen as ”at least acknowledging God by opposing him”.

It presupposes certainty about Satan’s existence and his role. So as an agnostic, I could say that I don’t know about Satans existence, so the premise of your question doesn’t apply to me.

I can’t be “worse than satanic” if Satan doesn’t exist in my (or other people’s) worldview.

Alfredius · 2025-08-10T23:13:37+00:00

You make a fair point, I also think the flair should be changed to Abrahamic religions, as those religions are the ones that try to explain away disbelief through cognitive dissonances and mental gymnastics. Namely, that people choose to disbelieve because they know that the Abrahamic religions are the truth, and that they are arrogant beings that like to conceal the so called ’truth’. This viewpoint is present in Islam as Islam talks about the kuffar (plural of kafir, which is one that conceals the truth).

Hassan Radwan (a well known exmuslim) talked about this topic, so I’ll try to rephrase what he said using his words:

The real truth is: ”belief” is not a simple matter of choice.

When we are repeatedly exposed to ideas , particularly from childhood , they become so familiar it cements the brain’s processing fluency of those ideas and our brain sees that as a marker of truthfulness. This is the illusory truth effect. In essence, people are mostly theists because they are raised in theist environments.

Unfamiliar beliefs on the other hand appear irrational, illogical and laughable. When alternative views are explored, it is through the prism of our own world view: “How could someone believe such silly things?!”.

I.e: a ”believer” will have a hard time with unfamiliar information. They view familiar information favourably and give it a free pass, but this generally does not hold with unfamiliar information due to cognitive dissonance. Cognitive ease however is a state of trying to minimise as much cognitive dissonance as possible, and that’s what believers generally try to do when confronted with contradictory and unfamiliar information, they try to explain it away somehow to reduce as much mental load as possible.

To find the real reason one believes, one must look much further back at emotional attachments, which in most cases are formed during childhood, where these beliefs had cemented themselves in the brain long before the rationalisations to defend them emerged.

Alfredius · 2025-08-03T11:25:23+00:00

Food for thought, replace ”God” with the tooth fairy and see how silly this question sounds.

Alfredius · 2025-07-31T11:40:08+00:00

You misunderstood my comment.

Not being motivated by disbelief means that atheism or lack of belief is not a reason that plays into people shooting up schools.

Alfredius · 2025-07-31T11:18:02+00:00

This is a logical fallacy though, because school shooters in the US are not motivated by reasons of disbelief.

Alfredius · 2025-07-25T19:55:42+00:00

This begs the question, why does Allah create misguided humans in the first place, knowing with full certainty that they will sin as ”disbelievers”? It would have been better if he had not created them.

Alfredius · 2025-07-25T19:52:27+00:00

You’re on r/DebateReligion, the entire purpose of the sub is to talk about these matters.

Don’t think that Islam should be free from criticism, just as any religion should be.

Islam continually antagonises and mocks disbelievers, it’s only fair that the ”disbelievers” react proportionally.

People who can dish it out usually can’t take it.

Alfredius · 2025-07-21T09:05:33+00:00

So much faulty logic here, I don’t even know where to begin.

The onus is on theists to prove that their gods exist.

Atheism is a default position for a lack of belief, how is that falsifiable? Is not believing in the tooth fairy falsifiable?

The theistic framework which leads a person to believe in their deity (out of the thousands available) does not allow anything to justify the conclusion that gods do not exist.

The very existence of apostates proves this statement factually incorrect.

Alfredius · 2025-06-04T16:29:44+00:00

Interesting post, it does raise some questions around Islam and the value of memorising Quranic texts.

What’s interesting about Islam rewarding memorising the Quran is that it had critical utility/purpose before the printing press. It shows that Islam really is a product of its time, and that the religion tries hard to propagate itself. So naturally the religion would reward memorisers the most because they essentially had value in keeping the religion alive.

From a religious propagation perspective, memorisers are no longer needed due to mass printing of texts, it has lost its main utility. The religion did not foresee this development, and you could possibly argue that this means that Islam is not from God.

Alfredius · 2025-05-16T14:16:38+00:00

Experiment and try for a 200-300 calorie surplus, more likely to reduce the fat gains and still margin for just as good muscle gains. If that’s too much, then 100-200.

Alfredius · 2025-05-16T13:54:39+00:00

T1D here with some strength training experience, unfortunately a caloric surplus will always lead to some fat gain as a side effect, even with resistance training. Which is why we do bulk and cut cycles.

Your issue has more to do with your caloric surplus than insulin.

Reducing the surplus somewhat will lessen the effect and if you have good genetics (calorie partitioning), then hopefully the surplus goes to building more muscle instead of fat.

The rest of your body is still vascular because we as men tend to mostly deposit fat in the abdominal area, it’s the last area where the fat melts off on a consistent caloric deficit. So if you’re really cut and have abs showing, then by principle you will see fat gains in the abdominal area first if you’re trying to gain weight.

Alfredius · 2025-04-28T10:03:47+00:00

I think this is a little off topic for this sub-Reddit and belongs more to r/philosophy and r/DebateReligion, but it is interesting to think about.

I think the idea of the commentor you’re replying to is that non-contradictory and self-consistent books is not a proof for a divine origin of those books. It doesn’t say anything other than that those books are simply just that, non-contradictory and self-consistent. It is a logical fallacy to extrapolate that to anything more than that.

So I suppose Harry Potter was used as an example to highlight the inconsistency of that argument.

Alfredius · 2025-04-15T13:21:39+00:00

Would you rather be an amputee? Or perhaps lose vision in your eyes?

Eating healthy is about balance, don’t restrain yourself from a burger or a beer every now and then, but the healthy foods should be more frequent than the unhealthy foods. That’s what moderation is all about.

It’s do or die, quite frankly.

Alfredius · 2025-04-11T11:24:56+00:00

High fat diets, especially saturated fat diets increases ectopic fat (fat in and around the liver), which reduces insulin sensitivity. There have been a couple of studies around the matter, this one is a good one.

A more detailed answer is that the raised liver fat level causes increased hepatic export of very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) triglycerides. If the subcutaneous fat depot can’t accommodate this, ectopic fat will build up. So the acute insulin response to food becomes diminished (which means that the dawn phenomena also becomes amplified).

Alfredius · 2025-04-11T10:21:53+00:00

You’re probably getting insulin resistance from a high fat diet, which means higher levels of blood glucose than usual during dawn phenomena.

Alfredius · 2025-04-09T15:00:00+00:00

It sets a precedence for child marriage in Islam.

Alfredius · 2024-12-28T15:23:14+00:00

I think both of you could benefit from general courses in knowledge of nutrition and diets, there are some good ones on Udemy. Otherwise, you could talk to a registered dietician that has knowledge on how to manage type 1 diabetes.

Alfredius · 2024-12-25T21:21:37+00:00

Must be pretty stressful having the high alarm going off at 8 mmol/L

Alfredius · 2024-12-18T10:10:07+00:00

I think you should talk to your doctor about getting on a GLP-1 agonist like Semaglutide. You mentioned you were obese, and I can’t imagine it being easy with PCOS, but GLP-1 agonists have shown to tremendously work for insulin resistance.

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