Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20150915044407/@comment-25814498-20160423133227

Marceline Saga wrote:

That's why I believe in it. It's the Qura'n which gives proofs that science exists, not the opposite. There are so many examples of scientific facts in Qur'an so why don't you search for them? Do you hate reading? Watch videos (although I highly recommend reading).

And now, I'm letting you with this book. I see that you're so interested in science, well, here's the seventh Imam, known to be the best contributor to science (along with the sixth Imam,his father, and the first, Imam Ali). I know it's a bit long but you should stop asking me why I am muslim and start recognizing the reason. Not gonna lie, I almost converted when I read that link... Then I did some research, and it all got whisked away.

What you just linked is not an accurate description of human embryonic development, at all; it was plagiarized by muhammed from the Greeks idea of embryonic development. They (wrongly)believed that during human reproduction, the male's semen fertilized the females menstrual blood, which then formed a blood clot, a ludicrous statement. The only time this could be considered true is during a miscarriage, at which point it is no longer considered alive. Since Muhammad had many wives, it is more than likely that he was very familiar with miscarriages and the "dead mass of clotted blood" there in.

The 4 stages the Quran describes are also completely inaccurate; modern science tells us that human embryonic development is continuous and seamless, nothing like the 4 definitive stages the Quran describes. It is also important to note that these 4 stages are identical to the 4 stages of embryonic development described by Galen. The Quran's plagerism of greek phylosophy and medical teachings can also be found in their description of how sperm is formed(found in Surah 86:7), not only completely inaccurate, but also identical to what Hippocrates and his students taught. All of this information and the information stated in the previous paragraph were well-known during Muhammad's time, making it blatantly obvious why such inaccurate facts can be found in the Quran.

While the link you provided avoids many of these issues by translating alaqah as leech, there are still many problems with the Quran's explanation. For one, it means that the embryo must look leech like for between 40-80 days, when in reality the embryo shown in that link only appears that way for about 2 days(between days 24 and 26), and for another, it is a much less accurate translation, as Fairuzabadi(compiler of one of the most important arabic dictionaries) states it has the same meaning as a "clot of blood".

So there you have it. The so called "science" in your holy book was not only completely inaccurate, but also plagiarized from ancient Greek scholars by muham to be regurgitated as the "word of God". What was this evidence again? I forgot.