God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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future, an interpreter of the Quran will feel better
equipped to explain those verses which contain
scientific truths; correct information about any
given fact can never be contrary to Quranic
assertions, whatever they may be.
Assertions of this sort, fall into two separate
categories, one relating to matters on which there
existed no prior information whatsoever at the time
the Quran was written, and the other to matters on
which the information available was either
superficial or inadequate.
Dr. Maurice Bucaille, in his
The Bible, the Qur’an and
Science,
describes as ‘bizarre’ the notion that ‘if
surprising statements of a scientific nature exist in
the Quran, they may be accounted for by the fact
that Arab scientists were so far ahead of their time
and Muhammad was influenced by their work.
Anyone who knows anything about Islamic history
is aware that the period of the Middle Ages which
saw the cultural and scientific upsurge in the Arab
world came after Muhammad and would not
therefore indulge in such whims’ (p.121).
