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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for laying to rest this whole ridiculous discussion on the Koran and embryology, and the countless back and forths on Dr. Moore.

Logic:

1. The Koran can be interpreted to have anticipated much of what we have later learned about embryology.

[b]Did anyone say this? No. What was said is that as far as embryology is concerned, the Quran did identify very signfiicant pieces of information about fetal development. This discussion was never about what the Quran contributed to the science of embryology. It was about whether the information identified in the Quran was accurate and not plagiarized. Please go back and re-read the last four pages of this thread.
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2. The rightness of the Koran and hadith about emryology was confirmed by a western doctor no one's heard of.

[b]If you haven't heard of Dr. Keith Moore you are either very young or don't read much. I have a sister, brother-in-law, and a husband who are all in the medical field and they have all heard of Dr. Keith Moore's work. Even the embryology committee of Saudi Arabia had heard of him twenty years ago and thats coming from a country where the vast majority of their population are illiterate. 
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3.  Because the Koran is right on embryology everything else in it must be true.

[b]This is an illogical leap, faulty reasoning. We are specifically talking about whether the  Quran was correct in some of its verses, specifically relating to embryology. it has been shown that it was. To determine if the Quran is correct on everything else, you'd have to do the same level of investigating on everything else in the book. But it should make one curious enough to start investigating if they are interested in learning the truth.
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4.  Because what the Koran says is true it must be the word of God and Islam is the one true religion.

[b]No one said this except you. Muslims do believe it is the word of God, but we also believe the Bible (original unaltered religion) was also the word of God and so was the Torah. We do believe in all three books but that they all preach similarly the same message of ONE God, no trinity, no divinity of Jesus, many respected prophets, the importance of Mary, the last day of judgment, belief in angels, that there is a heaven and a hell.
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The childish logic here is a reflection of the lack of critical thinking (and even discouragement of it) in Arab and Muslim educational curriculum today.

[b]I think we just proved that it was your reasoning skills above that were faulty. You made leaps of judgment, made faulty inferences, hasty conclusions.
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The further intellectually immature feature of this line of argument is the view that backing statements up with reams of quotes from anyone who sounds like he may authoritative makes the arguments more convincing.  Instead, of course, it weakens the argument, as it is an up front admission it doesn't stand on its own.

[b]In the court of law, expert witnesses are used all the time. You're just not making sense here. 
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All the arguments that have gone on in this thread in defense of Islam tell you all you need to know about the sate of intellectual thinking in Islam today.  How far it has declined from the days of A;Biruni and Ibn Tufayl!

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