One of these books is a specialized book in embryology entitled The Developing Human by Dr. Keith L. Moore, published by W.B. Saunders, 1982. In the third edition of this book, Dr. Moore said:
"It is cited in the Koran, the holy book of the Muslims, that human beings are produced from a mixture of secretions from the male and the female. Several references are made to the creation of a human being from a sperm drop and it is also suggested that the resulting organism settles in the woman like a seed, six days after its beginning. (The human blastocyst begins to implant about six days after fertilization.) The Koran, (and prophet saying), also states that the sperm drop develops 'into a clot of congealed blood' (an implanted blastocyst or a spontaneously aborted conceptus would resemble a blood clot.) Reference is also made to the leech-like appearance of the embryo... "
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/dyktb.html
2007-06-01 14:29:08 · 17 answers · asked by SuperB 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
icarus62:
Have you read this? or Just saying miraculas?
2007-06-01 14:34:24 · update #1
I find everything in Quran amazing... its the God's word after all.
2007-06-01 14:40:07 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing remarkable about the vague things that are claimed to be miraculous understandings of science in the Quran. I have always found it strange that Muslims naively use this as a proselytizing angle with westerners, especially when they should be well aware how sophisticated their western audience is.
Did you know that Jonathan Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_ accurately predicted that Mars had two moons, and said that these moons orbited with a period of 10 hours and a period of 21 hours?
This was a stunningly accurate prediction of a discovery that would be made a century and a half later. It far FAR exceeds the ambition, accuracy and scope of any of the alleged predictions of the Quran. No Quranic science even comes near being this deadly accurate.
And yet I see nobody proclaiming that Gulliver's Travels is a book of religious scripture.
2007-06-01 14:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
study the historic previous of Abraham, it relatively is the place those 2 cultures have been created and got here from. The Koran vs. The Bible The messages that grew to strengthen into the Koran, or Quran, make up a volume approximately 4-fifths the dimensions of the recent testomony. The Koran is split into 114 chapters, or suras, that are arranged so as of lowering length, different than for the fast first sura, it relatively is a factor of a Muslim's on a regular basis prayer. Muslims reject the Bible—and via extension, Christianity and Judaism—as being corrupt and previous via the Koran. "Muslims regard the previous and New Testaments as sharing 2 defects from which the Quran is loose ... They record in basic terms parts of the reality ... [and] the Jewish and Christian Bibles have been partly corrupted in transmission, a fact that explains the occasional discrepancies that happen between their bills and parallel ones interior the Quran ... The Quran [is] the main suitable and infallible revelation of God's will. Its 2nd financial ruin says explicitly: 'it relatively is the Scripture whereof there is not any doubt'" (John Miller and Aaron Kenedi, interior Islam, 2002, p. 22). Use the link decrease than to study extra.
2016-11-24 23:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First I want to comment on the below reply:
"....Sun sets in a murky pool very amazing"....
If you carefully read that chapter of Quran, you realize that God says in that verse : "Zulkarnain (a historic person) found the sun setting in a murky water..."! So, it is a description what Zulkarnain thought about Sun and its setting according to knowledge of his time... It is also interesting that some translations of Quran translate that verse from arabic as "he reached the setting of the sun..." and some others translate it as "he reached the place of the setting of the sun..."! This is due to the arabic word used for "setting of the sun". The both meaning is equally true. But, if you follow the verses you see an interesting pattern in those verses. The following verse talks about another travel of Zulkarnain and states that "he reached the rising of the sun..."... Again a double meaning word! It also means "the place of the rising of the sun"! But, continue to read. The next verse is about another trip of him. By the way all these 3 adjacent verses starts with the same phrase : "Hatta iza belaga..."! Indicating that something is coming... Then the next verse says "he reached (a tract) between two mountains"... The paranthesis here indicates an addition of the translator. The original verse does not contain the word "a tract"... So it is actually "he reached between two mountains". The exclusion of the term "place" here in this last verse implies that previous 2 verses also do not contain the term "place".... So they are "he reached the setting of the sun" and "he reached the rising of the sun". There is no word like "place" in these verse.
Quran also contains another verse similar to this one. In that verse Abraham talks to a disbeliever and says "My God brings the sun from east, can you bring it from west?"... Again it is Abraham who thinks that sun comes from east, not God. God only says the truth about Abraham : Abraham thinks that sun is rotating around the world!
One final thing: You deny all the miracles of Quran. Try this one for free : http://www.quran-miracle.info
It is about "Quran's answer to God of the Gaps argument"... I am sure you will say that "Ancient people were aware of the God of the Gaps argument"!
Enjoy it!
2007-06-05 01:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by erisken 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So what? Such general explanations were known long before the Koran. The Egyptians were digging into bodies 3500 years ago and there were systematic dissections of humans and vivisections of animals at least 2500 years ago.
And, if you mean to imply that the Koran contains the equivalent of modern scientific knowledge, how about providing us with examples of its discussion of DNA and the bio-chemistry of the human brain? - or, nuclear energy and global circulation patterns? – or how about a map of the bottom of the oceans?
2007-06-01 14:47:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "blood clot"? Not really. I appreciate the imagery but reading current embryology into it is just that. The "mud man" from Genesis 2 is a cooler image,IMHO.
2007-06-01 14:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by James O 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I find the scientific accuracy where it says the Sun sets in a murky pool very amazing. Just where would I find that pool?
2007-06-01 14:35:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's cute how you religious nuts (of all flavors) like to go back into your ancient holy books and pick and choose and cut and paste and mishmash things until they almost sort of look like something discovered by modern science. Really. Hilarious. Kind of like when people read stuff into Nostradamus nonsense and try and make it relevant to something that happened recently.
2007-06-01 14:32:55 · answer #8 · answered by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Wow. 'Cause that was really hard to figure out, after millions of years of people having sex.
2007-06-01 14:35:41 · answer #9 · answered by eri 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
More amazing how absolutely wrong it is and how far you will stretch a point, nice try... were not biting.
2007-06-01 14:39:50 · answer #10 · answered by Scott B 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋