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Originally Posted by aamirsaab  
Just thought I'd pop in my two cents:
''...The shape of the skeleton determines the general appearance of the embryo in the bones stage during the 7th week; muscles do not develop at the same time but their development follows soon after. The muscles take their positions around the bones throughout the body and therefore Clothe the bones. Thus, the muscles take their well known forms and strcutures... The stage of clothing with muscle occurs during the 8th week..." (Keith L. Moore, Developing Human, 3 . edition, W. B. Saunders Company, 1982, p 364a) 
p.s; incase you aren't aware, the excerpt I gave backs up the ayat. Meaning, that the ayat is correct from a scientific point of view. |
That's great. Now, can you provide a quote from some other book, preferably one not written by an islam-admirer?
and anyway, the embrionic development is not as black and white as "bones come first, then come the muscles". There are different types of bones and muscles that start forming at different times, there are different stages of bone and muscle formation. ( which leaves as with a question what is a bone, what is a muscle? when is it formed? A what stage does it become a bone...
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Even muslims in this thread pointed out that certain bone and muscle tissues are formed simultanously, whereas in some cases bones come first.