The strange challenge of the Qur’an

I’ve always found this to be a very strange argument…

I can’t write a poetry like Shakespeare – does that mean his poetry is divine revelation? Of course not.

In fact, when I read the Qu’ran, I found it very erratic and stilted, so producing something equal or better doesn’t seem hard. I think I would submit in response to this challenge the poetry of Kahlil Gibran.

However, the challenge is impossible to meet because by what standard would one judge one better than the other? The Qur’an doesn’t say…