Responding to the Odd/Even Math Miracle of the Quran
One of the claims regarding the Quran is there is a checksum on it.
What is a checksum? Well it’s an integrity check, a way for an author to sign or “seal the envelope” in order to indicate that the message has not been tampered with. A very simple checksum would be for example if I put the total word count at the bottom of this article. When you get to the bottom you can see if the number matches the words in this article and you can confirm its correct. However this wouldn’t be very tamper proof as you could change all of the words and maintain the same number in order to still pass the checksum. A better checksum would be to assign each letter a value (A is 1, B is 2 and so on) and then put the total at the end. This would be better, but it’s still very weak as someone could tamper with it as long as they kept the same number of letter uses the same it would still pass the checksum. Nevertheless the point should be clear.
