Islam
A false religion - for many reasons
4) Scientific statements in the Quran are wrong.
Claims by Moslems that the Quran contains scientific revelations are NOT true. Moslems have gone to extreme lengths to prove scientific revelations in the Quran, but all of these supposed Divine revelations are bogus for one of three reasons: 1) the verses are so vague they could be interpreted any number of ways: 2) Some revelations are mere observations of nature: or 3) Scientific statements that are just plain WRONG.
Some examples of scientific statements that are WRONG:
The Water Cycle:
Water (1) evaporates from the seas and the earth; (2) becomes clouds; which (3) give rain; which (4) causes the land to bring forth, and (5) replenishes the water table, which reveals itself by gushing springs and full wells. Many verses in the Quran show steps 2, 3 and 4: 50:9-11, 35:9, 30:48, 7:57, 25:48-49, 45:5. Step 5 is claimed in verses 23:18-19, 15:22, and 39:21. There are no verses in the Quran showing step l.
Interestingly, steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 were all known facts during and well before this time. Step 1 was not understood until much later in history and this is the step that there is no “foreknowledge” of from the Quran.
Now consider the Bible in Amos 5:8 (written about 1000 years before the Quran. This verse shows steps 1 and 3. From the book of Job in the Bible, (about 1000 years before the Quran) verses 36:26-28 shows steps 1, 2 and 3. The book of the Prophet Hosea from the Bible, verse 13:15 clearly show step 5.
Barrier between salt water and fresh water:
In the Quran, verses 55:19-20 and 25:53 state that salt water and fresh water do not mix because there is a “barrier” between them.
Sura 55:19-20 - “He has made the two seas to flow freely (so that) they meet together: Between them is a barrier which they cannot pass.” (Shakir)
Sura 25:53 - “And He it is Who has made two seas to flow freely, the one sweet that subdues thirst by its sweetness, and the other salt that burns by its saltness; and between the two He has made a barrier and inviolable obstruction.” (Shakir)
Sura 55:19-20 - “He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet; [yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress.” (Asad)
Sura 25:53 - “And He it is who has given freedom of movement to the two great bodies of water - the one sweet and thirst allaying, and the other salty and bitter - and yet has wrought between them a barrier and a forbidding ban.” (Asad)
The oceans are all salt water. When fresh water from a river empties into the ocean, it doesn’t immediately mix because salt water is denser than fresh water. But over time, it does mix together. There is no barrier. If the Quran was correct, we would have large bodies of fresh water separate from salt water in the ocean.
Development of human embryo:
Muslims claim the Quran describes five stages of fetal development which are: 1) sperm (nutfa) 2) clot (‘alaqa) 3) piece or lump of flesh (mudagha) 4) bones (‘adaam) 5) dressing the bones with muscles. The following verses show the Quranic description of the 5 stage development of the human fetus: 23:12-14(stages 1 through 5), 75:37-39(stage 1, 2), 40:67(stage 1, 2), 22:5(stages 1 through 3), 96:1-2(stage 1).
Modern science knows there is no clotting stage in the development of the fetus. We also know that muscles are formed several weeks before there are calcified bones. So where did this “revelation” come from? Greek medicine was highly regarded in Arabia at the time of Mohammed - especially a Greek doctor named Galen. These stages of prenatal development are in agreement with the medical beliefs from Greek medicine at the time the Quran was written.
This leads us to a scientific ommission in the Quran. There is no mention for the female contribution - the female eggs. Primitive peoples - including Arabs - thought that the whole child was in the “seed” of the man. The woman was regarded as the ‘oven’ for the process to be completed. It wasn’t until the 1660s that science began to discover the two components of human reproduction – eggs and sperm.
Milk:
Sura 16:66 says: “We pour out to you from what is within their (the cattle’s) abdomen, between excretions and blood, milk -pure and agreeable to the drinkers.”
What?? The raw materials for milk production are transported via the bloodstream to the mammary glands. The mammary glands produce milk. Milk is NOT made in the blood stream. It is separate from the intestines and blood.
Where does the Sun set? Where does the sun rise in the morning?
Where does the Sun set? Sura 18.86:
Until when he reached the place where the sun set, he found it going down into a black sea, and found by it a people. We said: O Zulqarnain! either give them a chastisement or do them a benefit. (Shakir)
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness." (Yusef Ali)
Where does the sun rise in the morning? Sura 18: 90:
“Till, when he reached the rising-place of the Sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had appointed no shelter from it.”
These errors by Allah was based on the belief that the earth was flat. Mohammed did not know that the earth was a sphere which revolved around the sun. Modern muslims attempt to dismiss this as poetry - but this is not part of a poem.
What does the Sun and Moon orbit around?
Sura 21:33:
Sahih International: "And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming."
Pickthall: "And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit."
Sura 36:38-40:
“Sahih International: And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.(38) And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.(39) It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.(40)
Pickthall: “And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.(38) And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf.(39) It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.”(40)
The Quran is stating that both the Sun and Moon have their own orbits.
In recent years, Muslims have claimed that modern science has proven verse 36:40 correct - that the Sun is on an orbit. We now know that our Solar System is in the Milky Way Galaxy and the Milky Way makes one revolution about every 240 million years - one galactic year. The Milky Way Galaxy is believed to have completed 18–20 revolutions during its existence and 1/1250 of a revolution since the origin of humans.
However, Muslims ignore verse 36:38 which is in agreement with verse 18.86 - above - which states the Sun stops at a ‘resting place’ which shows belief in a flat Earth. The Sun does not stop since the Earth is not flat. Verses 36:40 and 21:33 are talking about the orbit of the Sun in relationship to the Moon - which is an error by itself. It is not talking about the 240 million year rotation of the Milky Way. The fact is, the Quran’s “scientific revelations” are nothing more then guesses based on human observations.
Now THIS is scientific revelation. Job 26:7,8 in the Bible:
The universe is expanding
Modern science now knows that the universe is expanding. Muslims claim the Quran reveals this expansion of the Universe in 51:47:
Sahih International: And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
Muhammad Sarwar: We have made the heavens with Our own hands and We expanded it.
Pickthall: We have built the heaven with might, and We it is Who make the vast extent (thereof).
Yusuf Ali: With power and skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of space.
Sura 51:47 is similar to verses in the Bible. Undoubedly, Moslems stole this from the Bible, as they did many other things.
Zechariah 12:1 - New King James Version (NKJV)
The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:
Isaiah 42:5 - New King James Version (NKJV)
Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:
Isaiah 44:24 - New King James Version (NKJV)
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
Jeremiah 10:12 –
He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.