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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Muhammad’s historicity is similarly debated. The Quran was written down 20 years after his death (echos of Paul). The Hadith were written 2-3 hundred years later. There’s no record the Muslim conquerors across North Africa mentioned Mohammed or Islam, nor did their conquered subjects, until about 80 years in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad

https://compassthroughchaos.medium.com/muhammad-is-as-real-as-the-lord-of-the-rings-5322b0bbe1[/quote]

Yup. Just like Jesus, he “most likely” but we don’t have definitive evidence. [/quote]

[b]Who decides if evidence is "definitive?"  
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There is evidence (fact).  Whether anyone is persuaded by that evidence is up to each individual. [/quote]

We all have to decide for ourselves. For me "definitive" means direct evidence, and there isn't any.  But OTH, circumstantial evidence, of which there is a lot, can be very persuasive. [/quote]

What would constitute "direct evidence?"  Perhaps [b]if an eye witness wrote down their account [/b]in a book, and we have that book?  Like, the Bible?  [/quote]

Were any the “eye witnesses” literate? [/quote]

People who can’t read or write- their eyes still work.

Despite this schooling system, many children did not learn to read and write. It has been estimated that at least 90 percent of the Jewish population of Roman Palestine in the first centuries CE could merely write their own name or not write and read at all, or that the literacy rate was about 3 percent.[/quote]

So it seems unlikely that the “eye witnesses” write down their accounts. 
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