The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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Ancient Holy Book 1300 Years Ahead of its
Time.
The
Times of India,
New Delhi (10 December, 1984)
stated with equal drama:
Koran Scores Over Modern Sciences.
This new light on ancient Quranic verses was shed
by Dr. Keith More, a famous embryologist and
professor at Toronto University, Canada. In order to
make a comparative analysis of the assertions of the
Qur’an and the findings of modern research on
embryology, he made an in-depth study of the
descriptions of the development of the foetus as
given in certain verses such as 23:14 and 39:6. In this
connection he also visited the King Abdul Aziz
University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on several
occasions, along with his colleagues. He found,
astonishingly, that the statements of the Qur’an
corresponded in every detail with modern
discoveries. He was very surprised that facts
contained in the Qur’an had been brought to light by
the Western World as late as 1940. In a paper written
on this subject, he says: “The 1300 years old Koran
contains passages so accurate about embryonic
