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In articles published widely across Islamic websites, [[Dr. Keith Moore|Keith L. Moore]] goes on the record to provide a favorable assessment of the Qur’an and hadith in the light of modern knowledge about embryology. His analysis is perhaps the best possible execution of an "Islamic" understanding of embryology possible but it exhibits the tell-tale signs of being a hypothesis fitted after the fact to | In articles published widely across Islamic websites, [[Dr. Keith Moore|Keith L. Moore]] goes on the record to provide a favorable assessment of the Qur’an and hadith in the light of modern knowledge about embryology. His analysis is perhaps the best possible execution of an "Islamic" understanding of embryology possible but it exhibits the tell-tale signs of being a hypothesis fitted after the fact to known facts rather than a truly predictive, scientific framework: | ||
1. He translates Arabic into terms that no Arabic speaker would consider justified, but that allow him to claim that the Arabic is closer to truth than it really is. For example, in spite of the fact that almost all translations of “alaqah” agree that its meaning in the Qur'an is “clot,” Moore writes instead that “The word "alaqah" refers to a leech or bloodsucker”, which may be true in some other circumstances but is almost certainly not the case here. | 1. He translates Arabic into terms that no Arabic speaker would consider justified, but that allow him to claim that the Arabic is closer to truth than it really is. For example, in spite of the fact that almost all translations of “alaqah” agree that its meaning in the Qur'an is “clot,” Moore writes instead that “The word "alaqah" refers to a leech or bloodsucker”, which may be true in some other circumstances but is almost certainly not the case here. | ||