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Scientific foreknowledge in sacred texts

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This article is pretty much a WP:SYNTH essay. Bringing together totally unrelated ideas from at least three different religions, this article is a textbook case of synthetic original research. Note that no source for this article connects the three separate religious claims or speaks at all to the generalized subject of the article. Rather this is just a novel compendium of ideas that the Wikipedia editors seem to think are related.

It is perfectly reasonable for Wikipedia to include an accounting and higher criticism of the fantastical claims that get made by some believers in various religions about their religious beliefs having been inspired by a supernatural understanding of scientific reality. However, such discussions are best left on the articles that can be written about subject where the sources directly comment on these ideas. Examples include Islam and science, Biblical inspiration, and Hindu cosmology, for starters (but these are by no means the only articles where such information can be merged). As it is, this article is just serving as a catch-all net for vaguely related ideas and until serious scholarship develops which actually does the legwork of making comparisons between these beliefs, Wikipedia should not be on the vanguard. jps (talk) 12:33, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:05, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:05, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I was surprised to see it nominated since I have the impression that the article could be improved scholarly, although it would mostly a rewrite, so it may well be justified. This reminds me of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fulfilled prophecies which I nominated (with delete result). I'll still think more about it before !voting. —Paleo Neonate – 13:16, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
delete - there are no reliable sources discussing the fringe notion that religious texts "foretell" scientific discoveries.