On Friday, 29 June 2012 09:37:43 UTC+1, BV BV wrote:
> The Quran on Human Embryonic Development
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> In the Holy Quran, God speaks about the stages of man’s embryonic
> development:
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> “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 amudghah (chewed substance)…” (Quran 23:12-14)
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As everyone knows that God is an Englishman, I wonder why he chose such vague and inaccurate descriptive arabic terms to describe the developmental stages of the human foetus rather than his native English.