Maurice Bucaille (correct spelling) was an ordinary French Physician and lived in Saudi Arabia as an expatriate doctor to Saudi King Family. The Saudi king asked him to write a book highlighting Qur'anic science for which the King offered him $6 million dollars and he also made a further $2 million.
Dr. William Campbell is an American Physician who was an expatriate doctor for the family of the King of Tunisia for 20 years. After learning about the book of Dr. Bucaille, he wrote a book of 300 pages categorically rebutting Dr. Bucaille's book. I urge readers to read Dr. Campbell's book and see for themselves.
PS....... He did not convert to Islam
Isn't Campbell the one that took on Dr Zakir Neik in a debate on the topic 'Quran Science and Medicine'? Oh yeh it is, then you should watch that debate, zakir pretty much destroyed his arguments left right and center.
I didn't know that about Maurice, can you provide some official link for that? He's definately not the only person though, L. Keith Moore and others talk along similar lines.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Qur...cientists.html
"Thinking where Mu
hammad came from... I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case."
"Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics 1400 years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind for instance that the earth and the heavens had the same origin, or many others of the questions that we have discussed here...
If you combine all these and you combine all these statements that are being made in the Qur'an in terms that relate to the earth and the formation of the earth and science in general, you can basically say that statements made there in many ways are true, they can now be confirmed by scientific methods, and in a way, you can say that the Qur'an is a simple science text book for the simple man. And that many of the statements made in there at that time could not be proven, but that modern scientific methods are now in a position to prove what Mu
hammad said 1400 years ago."
Professor of the Department of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Germany.
Actually, other scientists found that Qur'anic scientific verses matches with Aristotle and Galenic theories of Embryology and Ptolemic Geo-centric theorie of Astronomy which were prevailing almost thousand years before the arrival of Qur'an.
Examples? Some
may have (i'd be interested to know which), definately not all, and lets
assume every single one did, the prophet was illiterate, there's no evidence to suggest he visited the greeks and had a read into some of aristotles books and then went back to makkah preaching aristotle tech. And if that's what he did, he would have been telling us things like 'Motion can be considered to be either natural or violent', and you would be here now lecturing us on how insane of a theory that is.
Nostradamus predicted the 9/11 twin towers, beaten.
Not yet, Yes i heard about that, but Nostradamus didn't come with a message of any sort, atleast not a message that was of much guidance to Humanity as did Islam. We know for fact (from the Hadiths) that the anti-christ will come with miracles that
probably might even compare some of those that Muhammad came with (in terms of magnitude), but that doesn't make him a source of guidance.
They wheren't the only two predictions that Allah informed Muhammad about, some where in so close a range and sounded pretty unlikely, like the one in Chapter of 'The Romans', where Allah tells us
right after the defeat of the romans, that they will be victorious, within a few yeras (and the term bidh'3i used has a specific time-range, i read this a while ago i cant remember if anyone could xplain that would be great).
So did he predict that certain companions will be killed by a certain people, like Ammar bin yasir, he also predicted that Umar and Uthman where going to be killed (no it's not a matter of random guessing, because if you multiply the probability of getting each of these 'guesses' right, it's just crazingly impossible for any normal person without soem sort of forsight to predict such stuff). I'm not going to convert this into a lecture about miracles, we'll stick to science.
I don't know about more, but would ask if it was worthy of any less considering all the above, perhaps the sphaghetti monster faithfull should hold a raffle or something so that they can pay a few million bucks for a phisician to write some spin to futher legitamise it's beleif
What makes you think Muslim's belief clings to books by scientists? Muslims lived pretty happily without understanding about the big bang, embryology, expansion of the universe, origin of life when Islam first emerged, there is no condition in the quran that scientists are to affirm that the Sun is heading towards constellation hercules in order for Islam to be proven right. Otherwise Allah would have 'made a mistake' only till a few decades ago when they realise that he was 'right all along'.
ps: sorry for late reply, just woke up.