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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the idea that humans were made from a mix of male and female reproductive fluids came as early as Hippocrates.[/quote]

Professor Keith Moore does translate "nutfah" in the Quran, Sura 76:2 as "mingled fluid"  and explains that this Arabic term refers to the male and female fluids which contain the gametes. This can reasonably be translated semen or germinal fluid, which was a term used as early as Hippocrates since he did speak of male and female reproductive fluids. So this is not compelling proof. But nutfah does not have only one meaning in Arabic. It can also mean "a very small quantity of liquid. " Hippocrates did not know the reproductive fluid used to create life was but a very small quantity necessary. And if you read the Quran verse 32:8, it states, "And we created his progeny from the extract of a lowly fluid." This verse contains the word, "sulala," which translated here as ‘extract’ is used in Arabic to refer to ‘a part of something, the issue of something else’. So the Quran is saying that only an extract or part of that very small quantity of semen fluid is required for the creation of a human being. No one, including Hippocrates, the Greeks, Chinese, Romans knew that only one of the spermatozoa from the millions present in a ‘drop’ of semen is required for fertilization. In other words, the ‘sulala’ or the extract of the sperm-drop is required for the creation of man.

Is this not compelling evidence that the Quran knew what no one else knew at that time?[/quote]
No, not to me. The standard volume of ejaculation is one table spoon.  That may feel like a lot, but in actuality it is a very small volume of liquid. That is observable with a naked eye. It is also observable with a naked eye that one doesn't need the entire volume of ejaculate to create a pregnancy since during a normal intercourse some of it leaks out.

But the main reason why it is not compelling to me is that the sperm-drop is not enough to create man.  One needs an egg at some point.  So it is inaccurate to say man is created from sperm, a drop or a bucket.

Finally, as far as I know, the Quran also lists a bunch of things out of which man was created - dust, clay, earth, water, nothing...sperm is just one thing in that list. [/quote]

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