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 ** Jesus and Moses are similar, because they are both considered to be prophets. So why they are not mentioned the same number of times?
 ** The Qur'an says in 7:179 that disbelievers are like cattle, yet the Qur'an talks a lot more about disbelievers than cattle. Shouldn't they have an equal word count?
-** We could find thousands of things that are in some way similar in Islam. The vast majority of them wouldn't have an equal word count in the Qur'an. Taking one of those similar words, which coincidentally have an equal word count, is not a miracle, but a cherry-picking fallacy.
+** We could find dozens of things that are said to be similar in the Qur'an. The vast majority of them wouldn't have an equal word count. Taking one of those similar words, which coincidentally have an equal word count, is not a miracle, but a cherry-picking fallacy.
 * When seeing the lists of occurrences for the words "Adam" and "Jesus", the verse 3:59 (which says they are similar by being created from dust) is the 7th occurrence.
 ** The order of the suras is man-made. If we used the original (Allah's) revelation order, the verses from the 3rd sura would have a higher number than 7, because it is a Medinan sura. Also they probably wouldn't be equal, because the historical revelation order and the order used today are totally different.