08-04-2003, 02:53 AM
Muslims are provided with scientific support revealed through the prophet Muhammad(pbuh), things an illiterate man could not have known at that time.
Examples:
1.We created man from an extract of clay. Then We made him as a drop in a place of settlement, firmly fixed. Then We made the drop into an alaqah (leech, suspended thing, and blood clot), then We made the alaqah into a mudghah (chewed substance)... 1 (Quran, 23:12-14)
Scientists of today have seen that human embryos look suprisingly like leeches and blood clots at different points of development, and they are suspended.
2. Have We not made the earth as a bed, and the mountains as pegs? (Quran, 78:6-7)
The Science Advisor for the former American President Jimmy Carter stated that mountains actually have a peg-like shape.
3. Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke... (Quran, 41:11)
Scientists have proven that at one point in time the universe was nothing but smoke.
4. God has said in the Quran about one of the evil unbelievers who forbade the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) from praying at the Kaaba:
No! If he does not stop, We will take him by the naseyah (front of the head), a lying, sinful naseyah (front of the head)! (Quran, 96:15-16)
The prefontal area of the brain, known as the Cerebrum, is thought to be the center of aggression, and it is where the motivation to initiate movements come from.
5. He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20)
Modern sceince has shown that there actually are physical barriers where two seas meet. Obviously, the prophet Muhammad(pbuh) could not have known this were it not Allah's voice speaking through him.
I hope that the information I have given you will help you.