What Scientists Says about Qur'an and Hadith

Keith L. Moore

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto. Distinguished embryologist and the author of several medical textbooks, including Clinically Oriented Anatomy (3rd Edition) and The Developing Human (5th Edition, with T.V.N. Persaud).  Dr. Moore was a former President of the Canadian Association of Anatomists, and of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists. He was honoured by the Canadian Association of Anatomists with the prestigious J.C.B. Grant Award and in 1994 he received the Honoured Member Award of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists "for outstanding contributions to the field of clinical anatomy."

He said:

"For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King cAbdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them to interpret the many statements in the Qur'an and Sunnah referring to human reproduction and prenatal development. At first I was astonished by the accuracy of the statements that were recorded in the 7th century AD, before the science of embryology was established. Although I was aware of the glorious history of Muslim scientists in the 10th century AD, and some of their contributions to Medicine, I knew nothing about the religious facts and beliefs contained in the Qur'an and Sunnah."

At a conference in Cairo he presented a research paper and stated:

"It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'an about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah."

Professor Moore also stated that:

"...Because the staging of human embryos is complex, owing to the continuous process of change during development, it is proposed that a new system of classification could be developed using the terms mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah. The proposed system is simple, comprehensive, and conforms with present embryological knowledge.

"The intensive studies of the Qur'an and Hadith in the last four years have revealed a system of classifying human embryos that is amazing since it was recorded in the seventh century A.D... the descriptions in the Qur'an cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the seventh century..."


E. Marshall Johnson

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, and Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Author of over 200 publications. Former President of the Teratology Society among other accomplishments. Professor Johnson began to take an interest in the scientific signs in the Qur'an at the 7th Saudi Medical Conference (1982), when a special committee was formed to investigate scientific signs in the Qur'an and Hadith. At first, Professor Johnson refused to accept the existence of such verses in the Qur'an and Hadith. But after a discussion with Sheikh Zindani he took an interest and concentrated his research on the internal as well as external development of the fetus.

He stated that:

"...in summary, the Qur'an describes not only the development of external form, but emphasises also the internal stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its creation and development, emphasising major events recognised by contemporary science."

"As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand the words that are translated to me from the Qur'an. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I do today and describing things, I could not describe the things that were described...

I see no evidence to refute the concept that this individual Muhammad had to be developing this information from some place... so I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was able to write..."

For more of what the scientists said about Qur'an visit:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Science/scientists.html

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Posted: at 2-06-2011 01:38 PM (12 years ago) | Hero

LIARS ! MOHAMED WAS AN ILLITERATE AND KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT .

IF HE WAS SO SURE OF WHAT HE SAID IN THE KORAN,HOW COME HE SAID WOMEN RELEASE SPERMS THAT ARE YELLOWISH IN COLOR DURING SEX ?

THE TRUTH IS,ISLAM NEVER INVENTED ANYTHING FR HUMAN KIND EXCEPT SUICIDE BOMBING AND THE HUMILIATION AND ABUSE OF WOMEN !

Posted: at 25-04-2012 07:21 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Funny how the fundies reject science, and then run to embrace it when it suits them.

Posted: at 27-04-2012 01:51 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Some people have said that Islam is the path to heaven. I choose to disbelieve them.

Posted: at 29-04-2012 12:31 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Muslims don't need to argue with hypocrites, Allah has given dm eyes but dy will never see.

Posted: at 25-11-2013 08:15 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Or you wave your wand and eradicate them, simple.

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Posted: at 27-11-2013 11:06 AM (10 years ago) | Hero