Rebuttal to Walid's book's "The Quran Challenge to non-Muslims" section:
He wrote:
The well known challenge in the Quran has been and still is to write something like it. Muslims till today could not produce anything like the Bible, which they accuse of being corrupt and man made. Nevertheless one could argue this point by simply challenging the world to produce similar poetry like Shakespeare, Ahmad Shawqi, Gubran Khalil Gubran, Al-Mutanabi and others. The Ability to produce beautiful classical Arabic or poetry does not entitle the poets the gift of prophecy. Even some of the greatest scholars in the Arabic language did not see any miracle in the eloquence of Quran's Arabic language; Abul-Ala Al- Ma'arri, Ibrahim Al-Nazzam, Ibin Hazm, Al-Khayat and many other modern scholars like Taha Hussein, who was the pressured and his material was banned concerning this issue.
My response:
I have covered this topic in full details at: www.answering-christianity.com/surah_like_it.htm.
Back to my rebuttal to Walid's "Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed" Book.