Dr. Maurice Bucaille
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The Quran and Modern Science: This book has statements of a scientific
nature contained in the Qur’an and other subjects to specialists from
other disciplines. Astronomers, zoologists, geologists and specialists
in the history of the earth would all have been struck, just as forcibly
as medical doctors, by the presence in the Qur’an of highly accurate
reflections on natural phenomena.
On the 9th of November, 1976, an unusual
lecture was given at the French Academy of Medicine. Its title was
“Physiological and Embryological data in the Qur’an”. I presented the
study based on the existence of certain statements concerning physiology
and reproduction in the Qur’an. My reason for presenting this lecture
was because it is impossible to explain how a text produced in the
seventh century could have contained ideas that have only been
discovered in modern times.
For the first time, I spoke to members of
a learned medical society on subjects whose basic concepts they all
knew well, but I could, just as easily, have pointed out statements of a
scientific nature contained in the Qur’an and other subjects to
specialists from other disciplines. Astronomers, zoologists, geologists
and specialists in the history of the earth would all have been struck,
just as forcibly as medical doctors, by the presence in the Qur’an of
highly accurate reflections on natural phenomena. These reflections are
particularly astonishing when we consider the history of science, and
can only lead us to the conclusion that they are a challenge to human
explanation.
There is no human work in existence that
contains statements as far beyond the level of knowledge of its time as
the Qur’an. Scientific opinions comparable to those in the Qur’an are
the result of modern knowledge. In the commentaries to translations of
the Qur’an that have appeared in European languages, I have only been
able to find scattered and vague references to them. Nor do commentators
writing in Arabic provide a complete study of the aspects of the Qur’an
that deal with scientific matters. This is why the idea of a
comprehensive study of the problem appealed to me.
In addition to this, a comparative study
of similar data contained in the Bible (Old Testament and Gospels)
seemed desirable. Thus, a research project was developed from the
comparison of certain passages in the Holy Scriptures of each
monotheistic religion with modern scientific knowledge. The project
resulted in the publication of a book entitled, The Bible, the Qur’an
and Science. The first French edition appeared in May 1976. English and
Arabic editions have since been published.
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