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Here, let me give you the short version…and I do mean short. This is a paper that focuses with obsessive detail on all of two verses from the Qur'an. You heard me right: the entirety of the embryology in that book, the subject of this lengthy paper, is two goddamned sentences, once translated into English.
We created man from an essence of clay, then We placed him as a drop of fluid in a safe place. Then We made that drop of fluid into a clinging form, and then We made that form into a lump of flesh, and We made that lump into bones, and We clothed those bones with flesh, and later We made him into other forms. Glory be to God the best of creators. Seriously, that's it. You have just mastered all of developmental biology, as taught by Mohammed. This intemperate western attitude is something that they have to do something about. We also have a duty to keep telling them. They understand such things when they know that there is no way out. This is what happens when moral degradation sets in. And if that is filtered out then the content of this paragraph is really negligible. When he says short then we should be indeed thankful for he really writes too much. His first objection is that there are only two Verses in the Holy Qur'an about embryology. Since the focus of these posts are the SFers only one thing has to be kept in mind that we are responsible for ourselves only. To communicate to the people at large is also our duty but that is confined to communication only. Whether they accept and believe or not is their responsibility and they shall be accountable for that on the day of judgement. Their judgment does not become superior to ours just because Allah(SWT) has given them some excessive worldly blessings. (And coming to think of them the Gulf people have them more than our frioends from the west.) So why are there only two Verses on embryology in the whole of the Qur'an? Most important answer first - because Allah(SWT) wished it so. And then the mundane answers. Why should one expect The Origin of Species to be a part of the Holy Qur'an? Then physics people will expect Newton's Principia and Optics to be there. Other people would demand their own share of space in the book. Who would like to be left out? None. The Holy Qur'an is book of Signs (of Allah) and not a book of science. Let us take the Psychological perspective. Till some time back the Psychologists identified that there could be eight different kinds of intelligences. And then came journalist who asserted that people miss one more, and that is more important, called Emotional Intelligence. And after that some of them started talking about Spiritual Intelligence is even more important. The least one can conclude from it that questions of spirituality and morality are the most important ones for us and these are precisely the issues that are dealt with in the book of God. People of science do realize that using science they can not reach morality but they refuge to accept that all morality should flow from God. In any case seriousness of the moral issues and spiritual issues is something that they can not afford to deny and those are the once that get their due focus. And if Myers at all insist that they shall take their morality from Dante then that is no argument against the Holy Qur'an. In short to expect a treatise on different topics of Zoology, Botany, Biochemistry and Medical Sciences in the Holy Qur'an is a bit naive. It gels rather well with those who make fun of God, religion, Islam and Muslims but the idea is not reasonable by any stretch of imagination.

Finally there is one more assumption in the background that atheistic scientific establishment conveniently uses. This is switching between the views that the Holy Qur'an is a book of God or a book prepared by beloved Prophet (PBUH) - may Allah(SWT) forbid such lies.