Science and the Qur’an

Along with the fact the Muhammad, peace be onhim, was illiterate; he could neither read nor write, he grew up inMakkah where there were no schools, and he was far away from thescientific circles which existed in Syria, Alexandria, Athens and Rome.Moreover, the scientific facts mentioned in the Qur’an were not knownin the seventh century. Having studied and examined the Arabic text ofthe Qur’an, Dr. Bucaille marvels:«I could not find a single error inthe Qur’an. I had to stop and ask myself: if a man was the author ofthe Qur’an, how could he have written facts in the Seventh century A.D.that today are shown to be in keeping with modern scientific knowledge?I had too acknowledge the evidence in front of me: the Qur’an did notcontain a single statement that was assailable from a modern scientificpoint of view. I repeated the same test for the Old Testament and theGospels, always preserving the same objective outlook. In the former, Idid not even have to go beyond the first book, Genesis, tb findstatements totally out of keeping with the cast-iron facts of modernscience».Dr. Bucaille studied many of the scientificfacts that are mentioned in the Qur’an, such as the creation of theuniverse, and other topics including astronomy, animal and plantkingdoms, human reproduction and other related issues. For the sake ofbrevity, two of the above issues will be discussed in order to draw thereader’s attention to one of the objectives of this booklet.