# Supposed "Proofs" of Islam **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 4, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supposed-proofs-of-islam/620822 "2012-05-04T02:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supposed-proofs-of-islam/620822/21 "2012-05-30T12:36:11Z")
> [@GeddyClaypoolBurton](#): > > While doing some research on different religions, I came across a photograph on an Islamic website. Below the photograph is an explanation for how certain lines in the human hands add up to numbers that are significant in Islamic culture. Here is a link to said photo: > > [http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/156559\_447486561943443\_153786011313501\_1647125\_1479426363\_n.jpg](http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/156559_447486561943443_153786011313501_1647125_1479426363_n.jpg) > > While one may simply disregard such a picture as absurd, I would like to go a little bit further in analyzing why. At first glance, it is a bit interesting. What are some serious reasons why you think such a “proof” is invalid, when so many people actually believe in it sincerely and it supposedly makes sense? Is this just humans trying to find design in nature? I am curious as to what some of your answers will be. 🙂 The V is really a Y so to me it is just a thing made up at the time. I know stories about a penny telling the story of Christianity as it should be, but that is just one way of looking at it. It still boils down to the fact that it is a Human who stated, wrote, though,t or taught, this. So as with all religons (or anything) it is just of human doing, thinking, or teaching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supposed-proofs-of-islam/620822.md?page=1)