The Quran on Embryology By Dr. Keith L. Moore
Professor Keith Moore is one of the world's prominent scientists in the fields of anatomy and embryology, and is the author of the book entitled "The Developing Human", which has been translated into eight languages. The book is considered a scientific reference work and was chosen by the Special(?) Comity in the United States as the best book authorized by one person. Dr. Kieth Moore is the professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Toranto in Toranto, Canada. In 1984, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada. The JCB Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. He has directed many international associations such as the Canadian and American Association of Anatomists and the Council of the Union of Biological Sciences. Let's now listen to what Professor Kieth Moore has to say about the revelations found in the Koran 1400 years ago, and what science has only recently been able to find out through detailed investigation: "In the 1940's, Professor Streeter of the Paranigi Institute of Embryology in Washington, D.C., proposed a system for classifying the states of human development. His system arranged human embryos in twenty-three numbered stages based on their differences in appearance. The Carnigi System of classification was used around the world until the 1970's when a more refined system was proposed by Dr. Rhonin Arali of the Carnigi Institute of Embryology now in San Diego, California. Intensive studies of the Koran and Hadith in the last four years have revealed a system for classifying human embryos that is amazing sense it was recorded in the seventh century A.D. Although Aristotle, the father of the science of embryology realized that chick embryos developed in stages from his study of hen's eggs in the fourth century B.C., he did not give any details about these stages. As far as it is known from the history of embryology, little was known about the staging and classification of human embryos until the 20th century. For this reason, descriptions of the human embryo in the Koran cannot be based on scientific knowledge in the 7th century. The only reasonable conclusion is that these description were revealed to Mohammad by God. He could not have known such details because he was an illiterate man with absolutely no scientific training. The first stage is Adapth, and you'll have to apologize my pronunciation. This is from Surah Tarrig Six: "He is created from a drop emitted." This Arabic term refers to the forceful emition of fluids which occurs during ejaculation in the male, and ovulation in the female. The male secretions, called semen, contain the spermatazoa, and the female secretions called funicular fluid contain the ovam. This is the stage of fertilization and the nutva, this is what we call the zygote, refered to in the Koran as the nutva, and the nutva undergoes division, which we call cleavage as it passes down the uteran tube. So these are the stages of the nutva here as it undergoes cell division. It is this term that is used several times in the Koran when referring to the beginning of development. After examining all these references, it is concluded the nutve refers to the small drop of fluid containing the sperm and the ovam. The term nutva is also used to refer to the dividing zygoat as it undergoes cleavage, cell division, and passes along the uteran tube to enter the uterus. This Surah says: "Then he made his progeny from the quintesence of the nature of fluid despised." Solala is an Arabic term that refers to the gental extraction of the germ of sex cell from the millions that are produced. The are 300-500 million sperms in the ejaculate of a healthy young male. Only one of these is extracted from the semen to fertilize the ovam. This shows the photograph of the millions of sperm when they are ejaculated, and only of these several million sperm is drawn out, which is what is suggested by the word sulala. Now the same in the case of the ovary. Only one ovam reaches maturity and is expelled from the ovary. It is extrated from the many thousand that are available in the ovary. Again, the idea of extraction or sulala. The next stage is amsage. Amsage shura a der tu. "Verily we created man from a mixture of a germile drop." Amsage then is an Arabic term which is used in the Koran, to describe the mixing of the sperms and the ovam. During fertilization the ovam retates within the fluid containing sperms until one of them is successful in penetrating its covering layers which we call the corona-radiata and the zona-pulitzia which is this layer here. I'll read it again in English. It's Surah Avasa 19: "He created a new individual from nutva, and immediately planned and programmed him." That was the first one we had. So, Al Kelk then is an Arabic term which means "coming into being." And it is used when refering to the fertilized ovam or zygote. Here you can see the nuclei from the sperm and the ovam uniting to form a new cell which is the zygote, or nutva and then here is the zygote or nutva again and it is just getting ready to divide into 2 cells, which we call the dividing zygote or the dividing nutva. The next stage Al tekdeer, which is from the same verse that was just repeated. This Arabic term means the determination of characters and appears to refer to the fact that from the beginning the zygote or nutva contains genetic factors in the cromezones...
