Updated a load of pages with notes from Qur'an

I've slowly been getting through my notes on the Qur'an. I've added some stuff to these pages:

• vexen.co.uk/religion/scriptural_debating.html - Scriptural Debating Style: Christians and Muslims Must be Patient and Courteous section 2. Islam: With Courteous Manners and Wisdom; verses like Qur'an 4:140, 4:148, 16:25 and 29:46 in general agree with verses from the Christian Bible on the same subject, although you wouldn't believe it from the behaviour of many of the hot-headed Christians and Muslims!

• vexen.co.uk/religion/christianity_historical.html - Types of Christianity in History: Who Were the First Christians? section 4.2. The Evolution of Religion: The Bad Boys Survive at the Expense of the Nice Ones; the conflict between various forms of Christianity became so legendary that even other religious books try to explain it - Qur'an 5:14-15 asserts that emnity and hatred between Christians is a punishment from God for their "abandoning parts of God's message".

• vexen.co.uk/religion/antisemitism.html - Anti-Semitism: 2000 Years of Christian Love section 11. Islam; I've added the right-hand box that summarizes Qur'an 5:12-13, which says that most Jews are liars.

• humanreligions.info/twelve.html - The Divine Number 12: 12 Gods, 12 Disciples, 12 Tribes and the Zodiac section 3. The 12 Tribes of Israel, 12 Disciples of God; added a new paragraph on Qur'an 2:60, 5:12 and 7:160, which records some strange details about the 12 tribes of Israel each having their own river, all stemming from one source.

• vexen.co.uk/religion/christianity_astronomy.html - Christianity v. Astronomy: The Earth Orbits the Sun! section 7. Islam and the Qur'an; Qur'an 13:2-3 contains some of the same errors about basic science as does the Bible, assuming a flat Earth.

A lot of these notes have been appended to other pages because I haven't written enough to 'break out' the sections into their own pages. Everything is still growing!

Synthetically grown meat

I've written a load more on synthetically grown meat; the introductory paragraph reads:

Meat in vats, grown in culture from a chemical source derived from animal genetics, will result in meat being grown more like plants than livestock. Such research aims to massively reduce the land and resources used by meat production, increase the safety and nutritional value of meat, stop animal suffering and prevent the further hunting of endangered species for food. It has even been researched by NASA in 2002, as part of an investigation into food production on long-haul space flights. The Economist newspaper in 2006 hailed it as a future industry. Animal farming as an industry is in distress in the modern world, and is criticized for its heavy use of water and inhumane nature. The potential benefits of growing synthetic meats in a sterile and controlled manner are huge.

Voltaire - nothing is new in metaphysics!

I've added this quote to the beginning of "Nothing New: Religions Evolve From Previous Religions" by Vexen Crabtree (2007):

"In metaphysics, in moral philosophy, the ancients have said everything. We coincide with them, or we repeat them. All modern books of this kind are only repetitions."
- Voltaire (1764

I am still alive!