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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would only be revolutionary if it hasn't been explored before.  But it just so happens that both Persian and Greek physicians, most notably Galen, have described much of the same in much of the same terms.  The companions of Muhammad included a doctor who traveled to Yemen and Persia and went to medical school there.

Might it be possible that what Dr Moore is a scientific revelation is actually a regurgitation of what has already been known to medical establishment at that point?[/quote]

Here is what Galen said about the stages of fetal development (which he [b]erroneously assumes is FOUR[/b], not three):

"But let us take the account back again to the first conformation of the animal, and in order to make our account orderly and clear, let us divide the creation of the foetus overall into four periods of time. The [b]first [/b]is that in which as is seen both in abortions and in dissection, the form of the semen prevails. At this time, Hippocrates too, the all marvellous, 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, and heart, brain and liver are still unarticulated and unshaped yet have by now a certain solidarity and considerable size, this is the [b]second[/b] 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 [b]third[/b] period follows 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. 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[b] fourth[/b] and final period is at the stage when all the parts in the limbs have been differentiated; "

So Galen was confused about the stages of fetal development. But the Quran spoke of the correct three stages of fetal development in this verse 39:6:

"He created you (all) from a single person: then created, of like nature, his mate; and he sent down for you eight head of cattle in pairs: He makes you, in the wombs of your mothers, in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness. such is Allah, your Lord and Cherisher: to Him belongs (all) dominion. There is no god but He: then how are ye turned away (from your true Centre)?"

Keith Moore then concludes: "I was amazed at the scientific accuracy of these statements which were made in the 7th century AD. I have selected verses and sayings for which I shall provide personal interpretations based on my knowledge of embryological history and of the modern science of embryology.[b]The realization that the embryo develops in stages in the uterus (figure 1) was not discussed or illustrated until the 15th century AD., although Galen had mentioned the placenta and fetal membranes in his book On the Formation of the Foetus written in the 2nd century AD and must have known about the uterus.[/b]

Thus, Moore credits Galen for some discoveries, but clearly states Galen neither wrote nor discussed/illustrated anything other than the placenta and fetal membranes in his classic work, "Formation of the Foetus."
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