This Cannot Be For Real!

Submitted by Jacob Burkey (United States), Jan 4, 2007 at 02:45

How many alcohols naturally occur in the body? Thousands? Any carbon atom covalently bonded to an oxygen atom that is in turn covalently bonded to a hydrogen atom is by definition an alcohol, no matter what else is bonded to that carbon.

I'd call it shoddy Koranic exegesis, but is there even such a thing as exegesis of the contradictory Koran?

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