Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer is Course Director and Associate Professor of
Medical Embryology at the Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. During the Eighth Saudi Medical
Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Goeringer stated the following
in the presentation of his research paper:
“In a relatively
few aayahs (Quranic verses) is contained a rather comprehensive description
of human development from the time of commingling of the gametes through
organogenesis. No such distinct and complete record of human development,
such as classification, terminology, and description, existed previously. In
most, if not all, instances, this description antedates by many centuries
the recording of the various stages of human embryonic and fetal development
recorded in the traditional scientific literature."
Prof.
William W. Hey
Dr. William W. Hay is a well-known marine scientist. He is Professor of
Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
He was formerly the Dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA. After a discussion
with Professor Hay about the Quran’s mention of recently discovered facts on
seas, he said:
“I
find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient
scriptures of the Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing where they would
come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and
that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the
passages.”
And when he was asked about the source of the Quran, he replied: “Well, I
would think it must be the divine being.”
Prof.
T. V. N. Persaud
Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and
Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive
Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There,
he was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy for 16 years. He is
well-known in his field. He is the author or editor of 22 textbooks and has
published over 180 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most
distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B.
Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. Professor Persaud
has included some Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad in some
of his books - and presented these verses and sayings of the Prophet
Muhammad at several conferences. When he was asked about the scientific
miracles in the Quran which he has researched, he stated the following:
“...Muhammad
.. could not read, didn’t know to write. - You have someone illiterate
making profound pronouncements - amazingly accurate about scientific nature.
[so] many accuracies - I have no difficulty in my mind that this is a divine
inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements.”
Prof. E.
Marshall Johnson
Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental
Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
There, for 22 years he was Professor of Anatomy, the Chairman of the
Department of Anatomy, and the Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute. He
was also the President of the Teratology Society. He has authored more than
200 publications. In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam,
Saudi Arabia, Professor Johnson said in the presentation of his research
paper:
[Summary]
"The Quran describes not only the development of external form, but
emphasizes also the internal stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its
creation and development, emphasizing major events recognized by
contemporary science."
Also
he said: “As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can
specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental biology. I
can understand the words that are translated to me from the Quran. As I gave
the example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing
what I knew today and describing things, I could not describe the things
which were described. I see no evidence for the fact to refute the concept
that this individual, Muhammad, had to be developing this information from
some place. So I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that divine
intervention was involved in what he was able to write.”
Prof.
Alfred Kroner
Professor Alfred Kroner who is one of the world's most famous geologists. He
is a Professor of Geology and the Chairman of the Department of Geology at
the Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
Professor Alfred said:
"Thinking
about many of these questions and thinking where Muhammad came from, he was
after all a Bedouin. I think it is almost impossible that he could have
known about things like the common origin of the universe, because
scientists have only found out within the last few years with very
complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case."
He
also said: "Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400
years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind
for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same origin, or many
others of the questions that we have discussed here."
Prof. Keith
Moore
Keith L. Moore is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy
(department of surgery), former Chair of anatomy and associate dean for
Basic Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. He has also worked at the King Abdulaziz University in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is most known for his textbooks on the subjects of
anatomy and human embryology.
"It
has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran
about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have
come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not
discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must
have been a messenger of God or Allah".
Prof. Joe
Simpson
Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of
Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
Texas, USA. Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn and the Chairman of the
Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee,
USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility Society. He has
received many awards, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics
and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992. Professor Simpson studied
the following two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad:
[In
every one of you, all components of your creation are collected together in
your mother’s womb by forty days...]
[If
forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who
shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones....]
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively, noting
that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of
embryo-genesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolute precision and
accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). Then,
during one conference, he gave the following opinion:
“It
follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict between genetics and
religion but, in fact, religion can guide science by adding revelation to
some of the traditional scientific approaches, that there exist statements
in the Quran shown centuries later to be valid, which support knowledge in
the Quran having been derived from God.”
Prof.
Yoshihide Kozai
Dr. Yoshihide Kozai is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo,
Japan, and was the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka,
Tokyo, Japan. He said:
“I
am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in [the] Quran,
and for us the modern astronomers have been studying very small pieces of
the universe. We’ve concentrated our efforts for understanding of [a] very
small part. Because by using telescopes, we can see only very few parts [of]
the sky without thinking [about the] whole universe. So, by reading [the]
Quran and by answering to the questions, I think I can find my future way
for investigation of the universe.”
Prof.
Tejatat Tejasen*
Professor Tejatat Tejasen is the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Previously, he was the Dean of
the Faculty of Medicine at the same university. During the Eighth Saudi
Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Tejasen stood up and
said:
“During
the last three years, I became interested in the Quran.... From my study and
what I have learned from this conference, I believe that everything that has
been recorded in the Quran fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth,
that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could
neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth,
which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible [as
the] creator. This creator must be God. Therefore, I think this is the time
to say La ilaha illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah
(God), Muhammadur rasoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger (Prophet) of
Allah (God). Lastly, I must congratulate for the excellent and highly
successful arrangement for this conference.... I have gained not only from
the scientific point of view and religious point of view but also the great
chance of meeting many well-known scientists and making many new friends
among the participants. The most precious thing of all that I have gained by
coming to this place is La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadur rasoolu Allah,
and to have become a Muslim.”
He Makes Shahadah!