Category: Islam and Science

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: Fetus acquires aย skeleton

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๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐…๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ค๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐จ๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Compiled by I. Abdullah. This post is โ€œwork in progressโ€. Last updated on the 28th April 2013, 21:00  Any comments are most welcome. The Read More …

The Stages of Embryological Fabrication by Dr.ย Lactantius

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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐š๐›๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐‹๐š๐œ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Writing under the pen name of Dr. Lactantius, a Christian author who describes himself as a practising medical doctor in the United Kingdom, alleges that the Read More …

Does the Qurโ€™an Plagiarse Ancient Greekย Embryology?

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๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ ๐ข๐š๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐€๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR A review by Dr. Omar Rehman This paper addresses the accusation that the embryological development described in the Qurโ€™an, has been plagiarised from the writings of Read More …

Some observations on the mudghah (chewed-like) stage of humanย development As described in The Glorious Quran

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๐’๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ก๐š๐ก (๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฐ๐ž๐-๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž) ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR The Qurโ€™an mentions the termย mudghahย ู…ูุถู’ุบูŽุฉู‹ as the third stage of human prenatal development. The wordย mudghahย has several Read More …

Human Development in the first 40ย days

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๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR This paper is concerned with the period of human prenatal development during the first 40 days. This paper reviews the hadith of the Prophet which describes Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: Bone and Muscleย Development

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๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR By G. C. Goeringer, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.SA. In this paper the processes of embryonic osteogenesis (the production of bone) and myogenesis (formation Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: A description of the โ€˜Alaqahย stage

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๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐€ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€˜๐€๐ฅ๐š๐ช๐š๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Photograph of a human embryo during the fourth week with visible body segmentation. (The Human Body. The Incredible Journey from Birth to Read More …

Response to Dr. William Campbellโ€™s claim that the human embryo does not resemble aย leech

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๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐–๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ฆ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅโ€™๐ฌ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR The above video clip is from the debate โ€œThe Qurโ€™an and the Bible in the Light of Read More …

Dr. Keith L. Moore describes the Mudghah stage of humanย development

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๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐Š๐ž๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‹. ๐Œ๐จ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ก๐š๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR A short video clip from โ€œEmbryology in the Qurโ€™anโ€ โ€“ a lecture delivered by Dr. Keith Moore at the University of Read More …

Embryology in the Qurโ€™an: A description of the Mudghahย Stage

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๐„๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซโ€™๐š๐ง: ๐€ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ก๐š๐ก ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR Comparing the somites of an embryo with teeth impressions on a piece of gum. 1.  Introduction The Qurโ€™an mentions that human development Read More …