Then you can harvest the kernels, and then you just need a few kernels.

Tom wants popcorn.

Popcorn is my favorite snack.

Pour melted butter over the popcorn.

I bought two bags of popcorn.

It smells like popcorn. You're right!

And we harvest those seeds, and those are the wheat kernels.

The popcorn is illustrating a key thing in physics.

That's what's happening to the water inside that popcorn.

Now watch closely. This is popcorn. I'll explain it here.

I made popcorn. Actually, I burned one, so I made two.

All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

Which is curious as we debate all this stuff. But as you think of coal, this is what burned wheat kernels look like. Not entirely unlike coal.

Part of the problem, I think, is that we imagine that the Koran can be read as we usually read a book as though we can curl up with it on a rainy afternoon with a bowl of popcorn within reach, as though God and the Koran is entirely in the voice of God speaking to Muhammad were just another author on the bestseller list.