tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post6632942736188613492..comments2010-03-04T07:01:36.988+02:00Natan Slifkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07903561261083292772noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-4372117406344981372010-03-04T06:21:23.912+02:002010-03-04T06:21:23.912+02:00Readers, be sure to see:<br />http://seforim.blogspot.com/2010/03/woman-is-not-elephant.htmlPhilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-38144147409383805972010-01-14T21:37:41.810+02:002010-01-14T21:37:41.810+02:00This post is misleading. This pregnancy belief has nothing to do with &quot;Islamic&quot; beliefs but with egyptian culture. Egypt has a long long long history long before Islam came along.<br /><br />ephraim while many western academics like indeed to claim just that, that it was all zorastrian. If you dig deeper you will see that frankly it was a hadith &quot;seek knowledge even if you have to go to China&quot; that influenced the great muslim crusade for knowledge. So it indeed was very much a &quot;frum&quot; thing for them!!Shalmonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-47733471049893740062010-01-10T23:28:10.829+02:002010-01-10T23:28:10.829+02:00I don&#39;t find that very convincing. It sounds exactly like that woman had an early miscarriage and conceived again immediately afterward.Simchanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-92215533445645660222010-01-10T19:38:02.202+02:002010-01-10T19:38:02.202+02:00I think you&#39;re right about the hoax. I guess the following is the best I can find for a live birth:<br />375 days<br />http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,797153,00.html<br />(I didn&#39;t check with any Muslim authorities as to whether the 4 year figure applies only to live births.)Philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-69846560703691253782010-01-10T08:55:01.757+02:002010-01-10T08:55:01.757+02:00Phil, I&#39;m not sure if you realize it, but the first link is clearly a joke.Simchanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-8957087711472041762010-01-07T21:22:59.131+02:002010-01-07T21:22:59.131+02:00Sounds like a case for Dr.Babich of the Derech Hatevah Journal.<br />http://www.yu.edu/uploadedFiles/Faculty/Harvey_Babich/Babich%20-%20Publications.pdf<br />see page 11-13Issacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-48517558420537773652010-01-07T16:37:19.860+02:002010-01-07T16:37:19.860+02:00<i><br />I don&#39;t know about women being pregnant for 4 years, but I do know that there was a man who was pregnant for 4 decades!<br /></i><br /><br />Amazing! But why didn&#39;t they do an X-ray? Is that how medicine works in India, they just start cutting?ephraimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-22363422918178584232010-01-07T16:33:24.887+02:002010-01-07T16:33:24.887+02:00<i><br />800 years ago, Muslims would definitely not have been so traditionalist!<br /></i><br /><br />I&#39;ve seen some statements lately (in connection with Obama&#39;s flattering of the Muslim world) that the medieval Arab intellectuals were not particularly &#39;frum&#39;, and many were not even Arabs or Muslims, but rather Zoroastrian Persians, etc.ephraimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-90034646592901956012010-01-06T10:51:51.673+02:002010-01-06T10:51:51.673+02:00&quot;one-in-a-half-billion case&quot;<br /><br />I meant to write &quot;one-in-a-half-billion to one odds case.&quot;<br /><br />(You can edit my previous post if you like, to reflect this.)Philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-11427888570934137672010-01-06T08:32:15.269+02:002010-01-06T08:32:15.269+02:00Awesome story, Anonymous! I was kind of hoping that someone would &quot;top&quot; my story, and you did! This leads to a question:<br /><br />What if there was just one case in Muslim history in which a woman had a &quot;birth&quot; a la that Indian man after four years? Would this one-in-a-half-billion case be good enough to qualify as a decent source for their belief?Philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-44237535754000106462010-01-06T00:39:42.364+02:002010-01-06T00:39:42.364+02:00I don&#39;t know about women being pregnant for 4 years, but I do know that there was a man who was pregnant for 4 decades!<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2346476&amp;page=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-55757341677910665052010-01-06T00:03:25.593+02:002010-01-06T00:03:25.593+02:00Fascinating. Especially apropos is this: <i>Debating and criticizing the opinions of religious scholars does not mean criticizing or disparaging religion. We mustn&#39;t be too sensitive to discuss a scientific issue that was misunderstood by the religious scholars of the past.</i>zdubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06642047900508041723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906205856510467947.post-42617838865963544082010-01-06T00:00:04.667+02:002010-01-06T00:00:04.667+02:0017 months and 11 days -- the longest pregnancy I&#39;ve found so far:<br />http://www.bly.cc/roast/1999/sld031.htm<br /><br />Or 18 years, but this one requires an asterisk:<br />http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1516-31802000000600008&amp;script=sci_arttext<br /><br />&quot;Calcified abdominal pregnancy with eighteen years of evolution&quot;Philnoreply@blogger.com