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Does it give you a criteria by which to judge the true from the false?
I fear to say something inaccurate about my religion so I'll only mention what I'm certain of . For example , a prophet can't possibly contradict his message in any way as Allah says :

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4:82 Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an? If it had been from [any] other than Allah , they would have found within it much contradiction.
Secondly , he can't possibly die before fulfilling the message . Thirdly , it can't be a woman as Quran says :

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12:109 And We sent not before you [as messengers] except men to whom We revealed from among the people of cities. So have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? And the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah ; then will you not reason?
And a woman honestly can't whistand the hardships prophets indured for the message of teh almighty .

Then again , I did say that there can't be a prophet after Muhammad peace upon him as this is a pure Islamic belief . As for charecters through history and how to tell if they're prophets or not , we never say who is without an evidence from Quran or Sunnah .

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with all due respect, majority opinion is not a measure of logic.
Wait what ? Which part of what I said do you mean ?

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Scientific and numerical miracles are found in all areas of life, and certainly in relation to mathematical sequences they can be found in all books within word patterns. They are not miraculous in themselves. Otherwise if we were to find the same numerical sequences in say.. The works of Shakespeare then are we to take it his works are if divine origin? Don't think so.
I beg your pardon ? Where did I say anything about some Da Vinci code or whatever they call it ? Anyway , what I mean when I say miracles on all scales include science , history , future , and others . As for science , it's when Quran or Sunnah tell us facts about things which cannot have been known to people at the time or at least to the prophet . As for history , it's when it tells us things that happened in the past and then we discover that they're true . As for future , these are prophecies of the future which are fulfilled . Some might take vague sayings and claim that they're real prophecies or that they contain scientific miracles , but there are ways to tell the true from false .

I just wanted to say this , but it's not really into the current subject .

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maybe I did not explain well.. I meant by relying on logical proofs that conform to our understanding of science, logic etc. in current time. Then if and when someone in the future comes along and proves that wrong then your basis for belief could crumble.
Understandable .

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If you have pure faith, that God is all powerful nothing can assail that because you cannot prove it by means of human understanding.
In honesty , my faith is based on believing in Islam after seeing proofs of it . Scientific ones come second after the pure message itself . They're additional , but we don't base our belief on them . And that's why there have been many who warn some eager Muslims from interpreting signs to come up with a miracle basing their explanations on theories or hypothesis which might and might not be right . Instead , they should base them on pure and clear facts .

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all I can say on this last section of your post is.... It must be a man thing!!!! Tut..
A man what ?