is the koran really scientific?

Question

Muslims claim, that a proof the Koran was from God, is that it contains scientifically accurate information about Embryology before man discovered it for himself. However, all the information in the Koran regarding Embryology is copied from three sources, 1. A Greek doctor named Galen, who lived of 150 AD. 2. A Jewish doctor named Samuel ha-Yehudi who lived 150 AD. 3. the Greek father of medicine Hippocrates who lived 400 BC. My question is: in light of the fact that all the information contained in the Koran was already in print by these three doctors, will you retract the argument on Embryology? If not, will you supply one detail revealed in the Koran about Embryology, that was not already revealed or that was new?

Answer 1

You ask if the Qur'an is scientific and make it sound as if embryology is the only scientific thing in the Qur'an. Is that because you don't know about all of the other things or because you are trying to deceive people? Suppose for the sake of argument that men wrote the Qur'an and got things from those you mentioned in your question (Greeks, etc.). Before the Qur'an was revealed, there were PLENTY of scientific theories--some true and many false. How is it that the Qur'an doesn't contain any of the false theories? Surely if the Qur'an was forged, it would contain a mixture of truth and falsehood, but none of the false theories are in the Qur'an! Explain that!

And one more thing... the Qur'an isn't meant to be a science book. More than anything else, it is a book of guidance.

"This is the Book (the Qur'an), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those who are pious." Qur'an, 2:1

Answer 2

please dotn bother asking here, there are hundereds of scientific facts in the Qur'an and also the Muslims, while Europe was in the darkages, were colaberating HUNDEREDs upon thousands of scientific artifacts and books and makign new discovories in medicine, physics, engineering etc which sparked the age of enlightenment so everything you have is thanks to the muslims.

such as the magnetic towers that come from the mountains that hold the Earth together mentioned in the Quran. The Quran's embryology is far more in detail than that of the greek, hewbrew doctors and philosophers.

Answer 3

God is the most scientific you ever know.
Have you hared of the medicine which was discovered from Joesph shirt story..

Dreamstuff Entity, all what you know is misleading nothing what so ever is close to the truth. You believe only misleading propaganda.
Joseph saw in a dream eleven planets. Does this mean that according to the Quran there are eleven planets in our solar system? 12:4
Joseph was talking about his brothers not planets.

Answer 4

Ah, not a question we've seen here often, but definitely one that has been asked before.

Fact is that the Galen, ha-Yehudi, and Hippocratic versions of embryology are quite different that those found in the Quran. Doesn't necessarily mean they were all wrong, but perhaps most spoke of different topics within embryology.

Have a looksie:
http://www.quranicstudies.com/printout76.html

BirdHerd makes quite and excellent point!

Answer 5

Nope, just a misinterpretation. No retraction. Anything can be reverse-prophesised.

Science discovered and studied embryology, no matter what silly verses you throw out there.

Put down the Harun Yahya and pick up the scientific texts of that time. If the scientists discovered embryology then, the Koran plagiarized it. Nothing new.

Answer 6

Yeah....the Quran says what it says 18:86 till, while he reached the putting-place of the sunlight, he chanced on it putting in a muddy spring, and located a human beings thereabout. We mentioned: O Dhu'l-Qarneyn! the two punish or teach them kindness. It says ants communicate 27:18 till, while they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed: O ants! enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving. It says a famous guy or woman could be a missile sixty seven:5 And verily we've beautified the international's heaven with lamps, and we've made them missiles for the devils, and for them we've arranged the doom of flame. save attempting....you in basic terms seem stupid. I quite have approximately fifty extra in case you want. further: we don't could desire to Google the lame excuses to appreciate they are lame excuses. i've got heard them. asserting that first verse says it quite is putting at the back of the spring is in basic terms flat out mendacity. it is not a proof. you will discover the Christians can do an identical difficulty with something you factor out from the Bible. it quite is lame while they do it and it quite is lame once you do it. recover from it.

Answer 7

you can't just say something without giving proof, if you had given us the source for this information or at least the supposed information that the Quran copied then I would have been able to answer you better, but anyway let's assume you are right, how did Muhammed (pbuh) know which information to ''steal'' ???? how did he know which theories to leave out of the Quran ? think about it.

Answer 8

The Koran also has incredible knowledge of astronomy... that was already in print for several hundred years before the Koran was written (some of which is not longer seen as correct).

It may have been ahead of its time in the 9th century, but it is just as anachronistic as any other religious text now.

Answer 9

yep.defo is scientific. I shud kno man, im an Islamic theologist and lawyer.

Answer 10

Well, they're not going to change anything if it turns out it's wrong, so I'd say it's unscientific.