God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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discovery of the circulation of the blood roughly ten
centuries after the Quranic revelation.
“I consider that the existence in the Quran of the
verse referring to these concepts can have no
human explanation on account of the period in
which they were formulated.”
MODERN PHYSICS AND THE QURAN
Another point on which human intelligence
appeared to have arrived at a major scientific truth
was that of the true nature of light. It was Sir Issac
Newton (1642-1727) who put forward the theory
that light consisted of minute corpuscles in rapid
motion which emanated from their source and were
scattered in the atmosphere. Owing to the
extraordinary influence of Newton, this corpuscular
theory held sway over the scientific world for a very
long time, only to be abandoned in the middle of
the nineteenth century in favour of the wave theory
of light. It was the discovery of the action of photon,
which delivered the final blow to Newton’s theory.
“Young’s work convinced scientists that light has
essential wave characteristics in apparent
contradiction to Newton’s corpuscular theory.”
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