Human Explination Challenged
By Muhammad A. Asadi

The Qur'an contains information which could not have been known to any man living anywhere in the world at the time in history when it originated. In today's world not only is the Qur'an a challenge to experts who analyse the history of knowledge but it is exceedingly important to everyday lay people who since the industrial revolution have been programmed to think of science and religion as opposing forces. Only four out of the hundreds of examples are narrated below.

1. The Qur'an mentions that all life "originated" from water (Qur'an 21:30) and that man himself is "created" of water and so are all the animals on earth (25:54; 24:45). Now these statements to an Arab would have sounded atrocious in that day and age. Even today such statements in the Qur'an might cause you to wonder if scientific facts about them are unknown.

The fact that all life originated in water is well established by the scientific community today. They have evidence to support the fact that the first living beings were algae, and they existed in water. The fact that human beings and animals are created of water is also well established since cytoplasm, the basic component of life, in any animal is over 80% water.

2. The Qur'an says that the sex of a human baby is determined by the "ejaculated
drop". It is common knowledge that semen is the fluid that is ejaculated by males
during sexual intercourse. Females do not possess such "ejaculated semen".

The point is that the sex of the baby, whether it be male or female, will indeed be determined by the "ejaculated drop", i.e. the father's sperm. It has been scientifically established only recently that the female ovum contains only X chromosomes. If the ejaculated drop bears the Y chromosome, the child will be male, otherwise the child will be female. No one living at the time of prophet Muhammad (pbuh), or even Darwin for that matter, had anyknowledge of such genetics foretold centuries before in the Qur'an.

3. The Qur'an mentions that the universe originated from a 'gaseous material" (41:11). It uses the Arabic word Dukhan, which stands for smoke. A perfect analogy for gas and particles in suspension and the gasses being hot.

Scientists have only very recently confirmed that the universe did indeed originate from a gaseous mass composed of hydrogen and helium, a big mass of hot gasses, a mass over 300,000 times that of the earth. That mass then fragmented to from galaxies. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who had no schooling of any kind and was illiterate before the revelation of the Qur'an, is said to have made up the Qur'an. Really? Could he (pbuh) have composed the above? The Qur'an gives an accurate visual description of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe. In the 21st chapter, verse 30 (21:30), the Qur'an states:

"Do not the rejectors see that the heavens and earth were one unit then we split them apart into many peices?"

This is exactly how the 'rejector' scientists envision the creation of the universe, from one piece which was then split by a 'big bang' into many pieces. How do we explain this information in the Qur'an if it is not what it claims to be, the words of an All-Knowing Creator?

The Qur'an mentions the movement of the sun, too. The sun's movement is not something that is evident to our eyes or experience but requires specialized equipment. The Qur'an states in 36:39;

"And the sun constantly journeys towards a homing place for it and for the moon We have determined phases.

Modern science has found out that the sun rotates around its axis every 26 days and is continually on a journey in space towards its homing place, the solar apex, just like mentioned in the Qur'an 36:39. How could prophet Muhammad (pbuh) have known these facts if the Qur'an is the product of his delusional or lying mind? Many may say that satan told him these thing. This might have had credence if it were not for the fact that every chapter (with the exception of one) in the Qur'an
begins with "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful".

Satan doesn't do things in the name of God. 4. The Qur'an is known to be the first book to give microscopic details of human embryology hundreds of years before the discovery of the microscope! The Qur'an contains information on embryology which was not discovered untill 1700-1800's and certain details were new even to modern scientists but were immediately confirmed as being accurate.

The Qur'an mentions that at certain stage, the developing human is like 'allaqa', a leech-like clot. Now, if you take a microscopic picture of a human embryo of 7-12 days and place it next to a picture of a leech, they both look identical. Not only do they look the same but they function in the same way too.

Just like a leech derives nourishment from its hosts blood, the embryo derives nourishment from the decidua or the pregnant endometrium. These facts about the Qur'an are well documented and listed by Keith L. Moore in his standard textbooks on embryology; books taught in such prestigious institutions as the Yale Medical School.

If we deny the Qur'ans claim of being God's revelation, we have to account for the above information, and how it made its way into the Qur'an, always without error, and always accurate. Justice and truth demand that or we are fooling ourselves alone.