Edip Yuksel vs. Ali SinaRound XII - page
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4. Human being is made of water:
"Do the unbelievers not realize that
the heaven and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded
into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they
believe?" (21:30).
The verse above not only emphasizes the
importance of water as an essential ingredient for organic life, it
also clearly refers to the beginning of the universe, what we now
call the Big-Bang. The Quran's information regarding cosmology is
centuries ahead of its time. For instance, verse 51:47 informs us
that the universe is continuously expanding. "We constructed
the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it."
Furthermore, the Quran informs us that the universe will collapse
back to its origin, confirming the closed universe model: "On
that day, we will fold the heaven, like the folding of a book. Just
as we initiated the first creation, we will repeat it. This is our
promise; we will certainly carry it out." (21:104).
"And GOD created every living creature
from water. Some of them walk on their bellies, some walk on two
legs, and some walk on four. GOD creates whatever He wills. GOD is
Omnipotent." (24:45).
Walking on two legs is a crucial point in
evolution of humanoids. Walking on two feet may initially appear to
be insignificant in evolutionary process, many scientists believe
that walking on two feet had significant contribution in human
evolution by enabling the Homo Erectus to use tools and gain
consciousness, thereby leading to Homo Sapiens.
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The fact that life depends on water is too obvious and
does not require any divine knowledge or laboratory research.
Thales
[
Miletus
, 624-546 BC] went even further and stated that the
origin of all matter is water. Although this sounds a bit odd, there may
be some truth in it. As we know today, the largest constituent of the
universe is hydrogen, which makes two of the three atoms in water (H2O).
The missing oxygen atom was added later when our planet formed. Scientists
believe that liquid water is prerequisite to life, and we know with
certainty that the first life forms flourished in the oceans, so water is
indeed a primordial substance. [source]
As
for the Quran talking about the Big Bang, this is a ludicrous claim and it
is refuted in this article.
The
verse 24:45 says “Some of them [creatures] walk on their bellies, some
walk on two legs, and some walk on four” Isn’t this obvious? Why
should such a banal known fact be even mentioned? But isn’t it ludicrous to
claim that there is a hint of evolution in this verse?
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4.
Human being is made of dust, or earth, that contains essential
elements for life:
"The example of Jesus, as far as GOD is
concerned, is the same as that of Adam; He created him from dust,
then said to him, "Be," and he was." (3:59).
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The
verse is saying that God made Adam from dust like a potter makes a doll
with clay and this Muslims’ wild imagination makes him talk about the
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essential elements of life contained in earth".
Muslims are desperate to find wisdom even in the most ludicrous
verses of the Quran.
Description
of Embryo
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5.
Human being is the product of long-term evolution and when human
sperm and egg, which consist of water and earthly elements, meet
each other in right condition, they evolve to embryo, fetus, and
finally, after 266 days to a human being:
"Was he not a drop of ejected
semen?" (75:37).
"He created the human from a tiny drop,
and then he turns into an ardent opponent." (16:4).
"He created man from an embryo."
(96:2).
" O people, if you have any doubt about
resurrection, (remember that) we created you from dust, and
subsequently from a tiny drop, which turns into a hanging (embryo),
then it becomes a fetus that is given life or deemed lifeless. We
thus clarify things for you. We settle in the wombs whatever we will
for a predetermined period. We then bring you out as infants, then
you reach maturity. While some of you die young, others live to the
worst age, only to find out that no more knowledge can be attained
beyond a certain limit. Also, you look at a land that is dead, then
as soon as we shower it with water, it vibrates with life and grows
all kinds of beautiful plants." (22:5).
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Verses
(75:37), (16:4) and (96:2) do not contain any information that can be
defined as miraculous. Even animals must know that their off springs are
born with the help of
semen. Isn't this why male animals take care of their off springs. Doesn't
this show that even animals are aware of the male contribution in coming
to world of their babies?
Verse
22:5 however, contains some interesting information. It says that we
created you from dust and subsequently from semen.
What
is Muhammad is saying here? Why “subsequently”?
The use of the world “subsequently” make it clear that Muhammad
is talking about the creation of Adam that took place from dust and then
the birth of each child that takes place from semen. Obviously this is all
mistaken. There is no such thing as the first man and Adam never existed
and no one was created from dust. Also sperms are not turned into hanging
embryos. In the Quran there is no mention of the egg. Obviously Muhammad,
like other ignorant men of his time did not know about the role of the egg
in the creation of the embryo and there is no mention of that in the Quran.
It
says that this embryo “becomes a fetus that is given life or deemed
lifeless” This is scientifically wrong. It makes one to assume that the
semen (that Muhammad thought is embryo) is lifeless and it is given life after it becomes fetus.
This is of
course not true. In fact both sperm and egg are alive before
they meet.
The
rest of the verse is sheer garbage. It states the obvious. "We
then bring you out as infants, then you reach maturity. While some of you
die young," What is so great about this verse? But it is also
wrong when it says: "others live to the worst
age, only to find out that no more knowledge can be attained beyond a
certain limit." This is
foolish. Knowledge is endless and humans will never stop learning and
discovering new things. Only
this verse should suffice to prove Muhammad was an ignorant man and not a
prophet of God.
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As
you noticed we do not translate the Arabic word "Alaq" as
clot; since neither in interspecies evolution nor interspecies
evolution, there is no a stage where human is clot. This is a
traditional mistranslation of the word, and the error was first
noticed by medical doctor Maurice Bucaille. Any decent Arabic
dictionary will give you three definition for the word Alaq: (1)
clot; (2) hanging thing; (3) leach. Early commentators of the Quran,
lacking the knowledge of embryology, justifiably picked the
"clot" as the meaning of the word. However, the author of
the Quran, by this multiple-meaning word was referring to embryo,
which hangs to the wall of uterus and nourishes itself like a leach.
In modern times, we do not have excuse for picking the wrong
meaning. This is one of the many examples of the Quran's language in
verses related to science and mathematics: while its words provide a
kind of understanding to former generations, its real meaning shines
with knowledge of God's creation and natural laws
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To respond to this I am
going to quote AE an Arab ex Muslim
Medic. He quotes the verse 23:14
and says:
ثُمَّ
خَلَقْنَا
النُّطْفَةَ
عَلَقَةً
فَخَلَقْنَا
الْعَلَقَةَ
مُضْغَةً
فَخَلَقْنَا
الْمُضْغَةَ
عِظَامًا
فَكَسَوْنَا
الْعِظَامَ
لَحْمًا ثُمَّ
أَنشَأْنَاهُ
خَلْقًا
آخَرَ
The way we could put this
in English is "Hence
we (god), created the sperm into (or made it turn into) clot (or whatever
it is) then created from it a lump then we created out of it bones
(plural) then we covered the bones with flesh"
Now, in addition to the
fact that many thinkers for 1000's of years had theories and also
some experience on the stages of embryo development, the above mentioned
description is no more than what an ordinary person could imagine, ...building
the structure first then hang the other parts on it or cover it with
them...just like erecting a tent.
This explanation is not
true. The development of the embryo as explained by MS Encarta 1998 is:
“The implanted embryo
consists of a hollow sphere, the blastocyst, containing a mass of cells,
called the embryonic mass, attached by a stalk to one side of the
encircling membrane. In a blastocyst less than two weeks old and measuring
1 mm (0.04 in) in diameter, the microscope reveals the amnion (a sac
surrounding the embryo), chorion (a membrane that develops around the
amnion and lines the uterine wall), yolk sac, and distinct germ layers.
In the third week a
closed tube appears in which the brain and spinal cord are to develop.
Another tube, folding on itself, is
developing into the heart, and at about this stage a
portion of the minute yolk sac is enclosed in the body of the embryo to
form a part of the embryonic alimentary canal. At the beginning of its
fourth week the embryo, now about 4 to 5 mm (about 0.16 to 0.2 in)
long, has the rudiments of eyes and ears, and each side of the neck shows
four gill clefts. A tail is also present.
Early in the second
month the buds of the arms and legs appear. The major internal organs begin to take shape, and in about
the sixth week bones and muscles begin to form. By the third month the
embryo is recognizable as that of a primate, and is now called a fetus. It
has a definite face, with the mouth and nostrils distinct, and the
external ears are forming. By the end of the eighth week the tail has
usually been incorporated in the body, and in the 11th or 12th week the
external genitals become evident. The human embryo is especially
vulnerable to the damaging effects of X rays, of disease viruses such as
measles, and of certain drugs during the fourth to the eighth week of
gestation. These agents can result in the death of the embryo or in the
birth of a child with deformed limbs or other abnormalities. By the fourth
month an embryo is clearly recognizable as a human being.
The creation of the brain
and the spine happen in parallel, (the brain is neither flesh nor bones)
and then long after the "BONES" of the arms starts developing
which contradict the Quranic verses that says all the bones are made first
then it gets covered by flesh (only flesh as if we don't have members in
our bodies!!!)."
As one can see the entire description
of the development of the embryo explained in the Quran is wrong. It makes
no difference how we interpret the word alaqa. Whether it is translated
and "hanged" or "clot" this description is
wrong.
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