Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?

[Alex K]

You have written so many pages, let's do it like this if you like: Would you isolate one single statement (not too long) from the Quran you think is a miraculous confirmation of a scientific fact, and maybe *briefly* give an argument why you think it is proof of your faith. Remember, as I said above, something being a scientific fact and something being proof that the Quran contains miracles are two different things.
I will then try and respond to that specific example.

Ok I think I follow u. Let's try this one. Now remember 7th century microscopes, x-rays etc did not yet exist. Allah says in detail in the creation of man in the embryo on this webpage http://scienceislam.com/quran_human_embr...pment.php. Now u have to also take notice that the size of an embryo is about the size of a grain of rice. So with the precise description of this small life inside a woman's womb describe precise to the "T" in the stages of its growing. In a time period when microscopes and sonograms didn't exist who but the Creator of the Universe could've had this knowledge?

This has been widely debunked - the description of Embryology in the Quran is not accurate beyond general vague statements that would be plausible without having to make microscopic observations.

The size of an embryo changes all the time, in the beginning it is clearly much smaller than a grain of rice, and after a while, it is much bigger. The statement is nonsense. In any case, one does not need a microscope to see a grain of rice, and if the author of the Quran has ever talked to someone who has witnessed an early miscarriage, they might plausibly have observed remains of this size.

Some commentary by an expert on embryology

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...alderdash/