Posted by: _____ December 10, 2013
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your accusation to Islam being a new version of Rigved, Akkadians civilization, Sumerian civilization and Mesopotamian civilization is not correct. 

those scientists who discovered  presence of many concepts (which are included in Islam) in pre Islamic civilization did their hard work, spend their life on it. And most important of all they come up with solid evidence that no one can deny it.

Let us say if some guy who never have gone to school and who don't know how to read and write ( believe me there are many ppl like that) started saying "Atom is made of electron, proton and neutron, god revealed me this"
will you believe him ?
wont you question why god need to reveal this to him, the concept which existed almost 90 yrs ago ?
Isn't there a possibility that someone who knew this concept may have verbally told him?
is it necessary to learn read and write to understand the concept of electron proton and neutron in an atom ?

same thing here my friend, I am not accusing, I am asking and showing different possibilities.

And ppl who called themselves Muslims are saying no you have to believe, it is from god. 

Let us say some one now comes and say Universe was created in a Big Bang, God revealed this to me>
Why god need to reveal the Big Bang which almost 50% population of this world know?

Is it necessary to reveal to us that if you drink poison you will die?

All these put question Mark about the Koran Being Gods word.And logic dictates otherwise.
 
Let me take the very famous claim in Koran about embryology, it seems to me with the limit how you translate Koran partial embryology  which resemble physical structure of embryo of modern embryology But if you study in depth about the embryology Koran has has omitted many important steps.

For the time being let us not go in detail but let us assume that whatever said in Koran is correct
Now let us examine is the idea of embryonic development in Koran
 is Koranic description nascent?

It seems that there was a gradual development of understanding about embryo in different civilization ( like gradual development of Idea of BB theory). In science many concepts are developed gradually.

Garbha Upinandas (1416 BC, Hindu text)
"From the conjugation of blood and semen the embryo comes into existence. During the period favorable to conception, after the sexual intercourse, (it) becomes a Kalada (one-day-old embryo). After remaining seven nights it becomes a vesicle. After a fortnight it becomes a sperical mass. After a month it becomes a firm mass"

Book of Job (1000 BC, Judeo-Christian text)
"Your hands formed me and made me - will you now absorb me? Remember that you formed me as if with clay - will you return me to dust? You poured me out like milk, and pulled me together like cheese. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and [inside me] did you interweave bones and sinews.

Psalms (500 BC, Judeo-Christian text)
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Hippocrates (460-370 BC)
1st stage: "Sperm is a product which comes from the whole body of each parent, weak sperm coming from the weak parts, and strong sperm from the strong parts."

2nd stage: "The seed (embryo), then, is contained in a membrane ... Moreover, it grows because of its mother's blood, which descends to the womb. For once a woman conceives, she ceases to menstruate...3rd stage: "At this stage, with the descent and coagulation of the mother's blood, flesh begins to be formed, with the umbilicus.
4th stage: "As the flesh grows it is formed into distinct members by breath ... The bones grow hard ... moreover they send out branches like a tree ...

Aristotle (384-322 BC)
"When the material secreted by the female in the uterus has been fixed by the semen of the male...the more solid part comes together, the liquid is separated off from it, and as the earthy parts solidify membranes form all around it...Some of these are called membranes and others choria...""So nature has first designed the two blood vessels from the heart, and from these smaller vessels branch off to the uterus, forming what is called the umbilicus...Round these is a skin-like integument, because the weakness of the vessels needs protection and shelter. The vessels join to the uterus like the roots of plants, and through them the embryo receives its nourishment".

Diocles of Carystus (240-180 BC)
"on the ninth day a few points of blood, on the eighteenth beating of the heart, on the twenty-seventh traces of the spinal cord and head"

Claudius Galenus (129-210 AD)
let us divide the creation of the foetus overall into four periods of time.
The first is that in which. as is seen both in abortions and in dissection, the form of the semen prevails [Arabic nutfah]. At this time, Hippocrates too, the all-marvelous, does not yet call the conformation of the animal a foetus; as we heard just now in the case of semen voided in the sixth day, he still calls it semen. But when it has been filled with blood [Arabic alaqa], and heart, brain and liver are still unarticulated and unshaped yet have by now a certain solidarity and considerable size,
this is the second period; the substance of the foetus has the form of flesh and no longer the form of semen. Accordingly you would find that Hippocrates too no longer calls such a form semen but, as was said, foetus.
The third periodfollows on this, when, as was said, it is possible to see the three ruling parts clearly and a kind of outline, a silhouette, as it were, of all the other parts [Arabic mudghah]. You will see the conformation of the three ruling parts more clearly, that of the parts of the stomach more dimly, and much more still, that of the limbs. Later on they form "twigs", as Hippocrates expressed it, indicating by the term their similarity to branches.
The fourth and final period is at the stage when all the parts in the limbs have been differentiated; and at this part Hippocrates the marvelous no longer calls the foetus an embryo only, but already a child, too when he says that it jerks and moves as an animal now fully formed."

"... The time has come for nature to articulate the organs precisely and to bring all the parts to completion. Thus it caused flesh to grow on and around all the bones, and at the same time ... it made at the ends of the bones ligaments that bind them to each other, and along their entire length it placed around them on all sides thin membranes, called periosteal, on which it caused flesh to grow.

Talmud (Jewish text, ca. 200 AD)

The embryo was called peri habbetten (fruit of the body) and develops as:

1. golem (formless, rolled-up thing);
2. shefir meruqqam (embroidered foetus - shefir means amniotic sac); 
3. 'ubbar (something carried); v'alad (child); v'alad shel qayama (noble or viable child) and 
4. ben she-kallu chadashav (child whose months have been completed).

Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh (Koranic text, 571-632 AD)

Allah's Apostle, the true and truly inspired said, "(The matter of the Creation of) a human being is put together in the womb of the mother in forty days, and then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period, and then a piece of flesh for a similar period.

“The Prophet said, "Allah puts an angel in charge of the uterus and the angel says, 'O Lord, (it is) semen! O Lord, (it is now) a clot! O Lord, (it is now) a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to complete its creation, the angel asks, 'O Lord, (will it be) a male or a female?”
"Verily We created man from a product of wet earth; Then placed him as a drop (of seed) in a safe lodging; Then fashioned We the drop a clot, then fashioned We the clot a little lump, then fashioned We the little lump bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators!


you see my friend, there seems a gradual development and sometime even standstill and backward concept.

So, saying god revealed embryology to Mohammad is doing injustice to those who long before Mohammad developed the concept. 

How can ppl claim Islam being religion of justice when it itself does injustice to ppl who developed many concepts included in Islam?

Mohammad first wife was Jewish, that means jewish were living in Mecca at that time, that means ppl living in that area were aware of JEWISH concept at that time. Mohammad himself seems to be influenced by Jewish concept of religion that is why he included Eid al Adha as a respect to the Abraham's submission to the god. by citing Abraham submission to the God in Judaism and including those in Islam he might have wanted blind submission.

Not giving credit to the scientist who developed the concept long before Mohammad is not a good practice.

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