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Holy Quran is in total agreement with modern scientific data?
Throughout ages, mankind has undergone numerous changes, and passing through repeated stages of development and growth, it has attained a more comprehensive awareness of the mysteries of creation. Nonetheless, the Quran has at all times retained its proud and dignified presence on the stage of human history and scientific discoveries. Dr. Maurice Bucaille, the French scientist, writes as follows: “A crucial fact is that the Quran, while inviting us to cultivate science, itself contains many observations on natural phenomena and includes explanatory details which are seen to be in total agreement with modern scientific data...... These scientific considerations, which are very specific to the Quran, greatly surprised me first. Up until then, I had not thought it possible for one to find so many statements in a text compiled more than thirteen centuries ago referring to extremely diverse subjects and all of them totally in keeping with modern scientific knowledge. ..... A thorough linguistic knowledge is not in itself sufficient to understand these verses from the Quran. What is needed along with this is a highly diversified knowledge of Science. ..... The hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad as the author of Quran is quite untenable. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merit, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at the time, and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncements on the subject? “The ideas in this study are developed from a purely scientific point of view. They lead to the conclusion that it is inconceivable from a human being living in the seventh century A.D. To have made statements in the Quran on a great variety of subjects that do not belong to his period and for them to be in keeping with what was to be known only centuries later. For me, there can be no human explanation to the Quran”.
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- The correct answer to your question is: NO. # Humans created from a single man. 4: 1 # Homosexual acts are condemned as unnatural. (Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you?) But, in fact, such acts are common in many other species. 7:80-81 # Crucifixion is a Roman punishment, unknown in Egypt at the time this story supposedly occurred. 7:124 # Humans created from a single man. 7:189 # 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 # The sun rises and sets at particular places on a flat earth. At the westernmost point on earth, the sun sets in a muddy spring. 18:86, 90 # Most scholars consider Dhu'l-Qarneyn ("The Two-Horned Lord") to be Alexander the Great, who is here presented as a devout Muslim. 18:83-98 # The Pharaoh threatens to crucify Hebrews on palm tress. (But crucifixion was a Roman form of punishment that was unknown at the time.) 20:71 # The earth is fixed and does not move. 27:61 # "The sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him." 36:38 # "We decked the nether heaven with lamps."> Allah put "lamps" in the lower heaven to serve as lights. These are the stars that we see in the sky at night. 41:12 # "Who hath created seven heavens ... Canst thou see any rifts?" Allah asks Muhammed to examine the sky to see if it has any cracks. 67:3 # Allah made the stars as missiles to throw at devils. 67:5 # At the end of the world the earth with the mountains will be lifted up and crushed with one crash. 69:14 # "And hath made the moon a light" This verse implies that the moon produces its own light, rather than reflecting light from the sun. 71:16 # Someday the stars will fall. 81:2 # Humans are formed from "a gushing fluid" that issues "from between the loins and the ribs." 86:5-7 # Allah dealt with the owners of the elephant by sending swarms of "flying creatures". 105:1-3
- All books contain knowledge it just how you interpret it. Just because the quran might have been dead on about one thing I don't think it's right about how to treat women. I think it was written for the times. times have changed and people are more free. guess a new book needs to come out.
- of course it is. it is the word of Allah and he's the one who created everything and knows everything. Therefore anything in the quran is in total agreement with modern scientific data(which he created and we discovered) And in the future with more and more dicoveries it will still be.
