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Videos are widely circulated from similar conferences organised by [[w:Abdul_Majeed_al-Zindani#Political_activity|Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani]] in the 1980s. He approached the Saudi Government and founded the 'Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah'. Non-Muslim scientists were invited to attend conferences, all expenses paid. The scientists were provided with translations of verses from the Qur'an, supposedly relevant to each scientist's field of expertise, and asked to comment on them. Videos were produced called "This is the Truth", and clips from them are widely circulated even today on youtube and elsewhere, of these scientists, apparently, vouching for scientific accuracy of the Qur'an that was ahead of its time. | Videos are widely circulated from similar conferences organised by [[w:Abdul_Majeed_al-Zindani#Political_activity|Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani]] in the 1980s. He approached the Saudi Government and founded the 'Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah'. Non-Muslim scientists were invited to attend conferences, all expenses paid. The scientists were provided with translations of verses from the Qur'an, supposedly relevant to each scientist's field of expertise, and asked to comment on them. Videos were produced called "This is the Truth", and clips from them are widely circulated even today on youtube and elsewhere, of these scientists, apparently, vouching for scientific accuracy of the Qur'an that was ahead of its time. | ||
In 2011, a series of interviews took place with four of these scientists. See the youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisIsTheTruthUncut This is the truth uncut] (also mirrored on other channels). In these interviews, the scientists Tom Armstrong, William Hay, Alfred Kroner, and Allison (Pete) Palmer, who all appear in the popular video clips, explain that they were tricked, misquoted, and misrepresented by | In 2011, a series of interviews took place with four of these scientists. See the youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisIsTheTruthUncut This is the truth uncut] (also mirrored on other channels). In these interviews, the scientists Tom Armstrong, William Hay, Alfred Kroner, and Allison (Pete) Palmer, who all appear in the popular video clips, explain that they were tricked, misquoted, and misrepresented by Zindani and the conference organisers, and they do not believe the Qur'an to be scientifically accurate. | ||
==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||