Scientific Errors In Quran About Semon ..?
There are two ways to approach this problem 1. The first way is you do textual gymnastics and try to fit science in the verse. Many people go with this approach and here’s their explanation ” The testicles and the ovary take their food from the location between the backbone and the ribs. In other words, the arteries coming from the abdominal aorta and going to the testicles and the ovary pass between the backbone and the ribs. In the same way, the nerves that feed the ovary and testicles come from the cluster of nerves under the stomach, which is literally in the region between the backbone and the ribs. Lymph vessels also emerge from between the backbone and the ribs ” Any honest Muslim would admit this interpretation is very far fetched and against the direct implication of the verse. 2. The second approach is the most sensible in my opinion. The Quran doesn’t care about scientific facts. Forget about the sperm for a while. There are many verses which imply the stars are comets or asteroids (which isn’t true) “And verily We have beautified the world’s heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame.” (67:5). What’s really important is the idea of shooting stars. In Arab culture ( many other cultures too ) people believed in the soothsayers who allegedly recieved news of the unseen from the jinn. The Quran wants people to know that the jinns can’t hear the news of the heaven anymore due to the “shooting stars” driving them away. The Quran wants to guide people away from soothsayers. Take another verse, “It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Each of them is floating in its orbit” (21:33) What’s clear is none of the people back then understood the orbit in a scientific manner, ie they didn’t think of the sun going around the milky way, the moon going around the earth. However, we observe (from earth) the sun ( the moon too ) rising and setting , traveling across the horizon. It’s a beautiful phenomenon which we can relate to on a personal level, many poets have used the different stages of the sun to reflect the passage of life from birth and adulthood to death. Now going back to the sperm being created from the backbone, people back then would have rejected the Quran if it said the sperm was created from the testicle as it was against the common belief of the people ( the sperm comes from the area around backbone and ribs ). What God really wants people to think and ponder over is the creation of a human being from an insignificant fluid (sperm). This should make us humble before God. I will describe a general principle you can use to interpret Quran : The Quran uses the common beliefs and ideas of the people around the Prophet (saw), whether they are unscientific or legendary to impart moral/philosophical lessons, so you should focus on them only. That’s it, there’s no other purpose of the Quran when it describes the world of phenomena. Here’s Hussein Nasr explaining the inferiority complex of some Muslims who try to find “scientific miracles” in the Qur’an. https://youtu.be/sQx9LM4TLPE