MECCA, INTERESTINGLY, IS NOT A VERY OLD CITY! Al Fadi & Jay Smith CIRA series  Jay and Al Fadi look at modern Mecca today, and notice that it is being demolished to make way for enormous sky-scrapers, almost all of them overlooking the Ka'aba (the square black building everyone prays towards).  Whenever you build large, high sky-scrapers, you need to dig very deep foundations to hold them up and provide security. And whenever you build deep foundations in old cities which have long histories, the archaeologists show up so that they can identify the thousands of artifacts which are uncovered from the ancient past of these cities.  And Mecca is supposedly the oldest of all cities, because tradition states it is here where Adam and Eve were thrown down to when they were caste out of the Garden of Eden (Surah 7:24). It is also here where Abraham supposedly lived in 1900 BC (Surah 21:51-71). So, indeed, if the Qur'an is correct, then it is a very old and early city, and, therefore, should have thousands of artifacts which should have been uncovered.  Yet, to date nothing has been found at all in Mecca! This suggests that Mecca simply has no history.  If there is no record of Mecca until 741 AD, and no map of the city until 900 AD, then what do we do with the Ka'aba, and where did the earliest Muslims face to do their prayers (known as the Qibla)?  This is the next question Jay and al Fadi move to, but if you want to find out the answer, you'll just have to watch this episode, and the next one which will soon follow.  © Pfander Centre for Apologetics, 2017 (12,905)