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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My above post actually answers both questions.[/quote]

Dr. Moore doesn't speak Arabic.  The Quranic verses dealing with "embryology" have been presented to him in translation, no doubt annotated to lead him to the water and make him drink.

There is no such thing as "female reproductive fluid".  Nutfah doesn't say what it is mixed with.  You still didn't address all the competing theories Quran puts forth (man is made from...clay? earth? water? dust? nothing?) .   The female part, or the egg, is never mentioned in the Quran.

I'm going to get warmed up and post that ridiculous hadith about "male reproductive fluid is white, female reproductive fluid is yellow, whichever prevails, the child will be of that gender."

Quranic embryology: a tedious, awkward regurgitation of Galenic, Talmudic and Persian beliefs. [/quote]

Can anyone here speak Arabic here and translate the words?[/quote]

PP insists, when she has no other argument to fall back on, that people can't understand Islam unless they know Arabic.  She has also argued in various places that one cannot properly learn  Islam from books or history, but rather it requires endless discussions with Islamic scholars.  (She may be esousing the latter because she thinks nonbelievers who carry out these discussions with Islamic teachers are more susceptible to conversion.)

None of this is Islamic, and is almost antithetical to it, one of the reasons to think the PP could actually be an Islamaphobe posing as an Islamic apologist.

Islam requires one simple belief:  "There is no god but God and Mohammed is His prophet."  (Then you are supposed to faithfully do a couple of practices: praying five times a day, fasting in Ramadan, giving zakat to the poor and making the pilgrimage to Mekka (if you can).  If you believe in that one statement and do the practices then you are a religious Muslim in good standing.

Islam emphatically is not a gnostic religion that requires special knowledge available only to the properly initiated to understand.  PP's insistence that you can't possibly understand Islam without knowing Arabic or without recourse to scholars borders on heresy.[/quote]

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