The following is a response to a comment by Mr. Jochen Katz on the foregoing article. Mr. Katz, while providing a link to my response on “Quick or Slow Creation?” on his page, writes: A Muslim response which forgets to take into account that the understanding of “yawm” as ordinary week days are not just […]

One of the objections levied against the Qur’an by Mr. Jochen Katz is: Does Allah’s day equal to 1,000 (Sura 22:47, 32:5) or 50,000 years (Sura 70:4)? Observe how similar 32:5 and 70:4 are worded (in English – I don’t know the Arabic) “ascend unto him in a day the measure whereof is [fifty] thousand […]