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Embryology

Under category	The Amazing Quran - By: Dr. Gary Miller
Creation date	2010-09-05 17:21:39
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embryology

a few years ago, a group of men in riyadh, saudi arabia

collected all of the verses in the quran which discuss

embryology - the growth of the human being in the womb.

they said, "here is what the quran says. is it the truth?"

in essence, they took the advice of the quran: "ask the

men who know." they chose, as it happened, a non-

muslim who is a professor of embryology at the universityof toronto. his name is keith moore, and he is the author of textbooks on embryology - a world expert on the subject. they invited him to riyadh and said, "this is what the quran says about your subject. is it true? what

can you tell us?"

while he was in riyadh, they gave him all the help that he

needed in translation and all of the cooperation for which

he asked. and he was so surprised at what he found that

he changed his textbooks. in fact, in the second edition of

one of his books, called before we are born... in the section

about the history of embryology, he included some

material that was not in the first edition because of what he found in the quran was ahead of its time and that those

who believe in the quran know what other people do not

know.

i had the pleasure of interviewing dr. keith moore for a

television presentation, and we talked a great deal about

this - it was illustrated by slides and so on. he mentioned

that some of the things that the quran states about the growth of the human being were not known until thirty

years ago. in fact, he said that one item in particular - the

quran's description of the human being as a"leech-like

clot"('alaqah) [ghafir : ] - was new to him; but when

he checked on it, he found that it was true, and so he

added it to his book. he said, "i never thought of that

before," and he went to the zoology department and asked

for a picture of a leech. when he found that it looked just like the human embryo, he decided to include both

pictures in one of his textbooks.

although the aforementioned example of man researching

information contained in the quran deals with a non-

muslim, it is still valid because he is one of those who are knowledgeable in the subject being researched. had some layman claimed that what the quran says about embryology is true, then one would not necessarily have to accept his word. however, because of the high position, respect, and esteem man gives scholars, one naturally assumes that if they research a subject and arrive at a conclusion based on that research, then the conclusion is valid.

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