Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge

{{silver}}{{anchor|Top}}{{islam}}[[File:Qur'anicScience.jpg|right|thumb|alt=Qur'an scientists, hard at work.|Qur'an scientists, hard at work.]]{{cquote|A contemporary person who knows some science can make passages of the Quran superficially resemble scientific insights by manipulating verses that have nothing to do with science and trying to pigeonhole them into something resembling contemporary knowledge.|||Russell Glasser<ref>[http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2010/08/quran-and-speed-of-light.html Glasser, Russel. "The Quran and the speed of light". The Atheist Experience. The Atheist Experience blog. 17 August 2010. Web. 27 August 2014.]</ref>}}
'''Qur'an scientific foreknowledge''' (also known as '''Qur'an scientific miracles''') is the idea that the [[Qur'an]], through [[Allah]]'s revelations to the [[prophet]] [[Muhammad]], accurately predicts [[science|scientific]] knowledge that could not have been known at the time of its writing, or about 609 to 640 [[CE]].

With the rise of [[Islamic creationism]], increasing numbers of [[Islam|Muslims]] are supporting the Qur'an as {{wpl|Bi-la kaifa|literally true|.}} This makes about as much sense as [[Biblical literalism]] (read: next to none).

==General problems==
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==Criteria for scientific foreknowledge==
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==List==
According to apologists, the Qur'an predicts:

*[[Astronomy]]
:*That planets have orbits: "[[A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed C#Celestial bodies have orbits|Celestial bodies have orbits]]"
:*That the Big Bang happened: "[[The Coming of the Universe into Existence]]"
:*That there was {{wpl|Inflation_(cosmology)|inflationary expansion}} after the Big Bang: "[[The Expansion of the Universe]]"
:*That the Big Crunch will happen: "[[From Big Bang to Big Crunch]]"
*[[Biology]]/[[Zoology]]
:*Several elements of embryology: "[[A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an]]"
:*That water is necessary for life: "[[Water is a must have for having life in any planet in the Universe]]"
:*That worker bees are female: "[[The Miracle of Honey]]"
*[[Climatology]]
:*That clouds have weight: "[[The Weight of Clouds]]"
:*Several qualities of rain: "[[About the Rain in the Qur'an]]"
:*That the atmosphere has seven layers: "[[The Layers of the Atmosphere]]"
*[[Physics]]
:*That it is possible for humans to enter space: "[[The Conquest of Space]]"
:*The speed of light: "[[A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed C#Light]]"
:*That the alternate dimensions of string theory exist: "[[Seven Heavens in Quran]]"

==Quotes==
{{cquote|If the Quran contains scientific foreknowledge, why did Muslims wait until science discovered those things to claim that the Quran contains them?|||Yahoo Answers questioner<ref>[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120906180420AA2Ldus "If the Quran contains scientific foreknowledge, why did Muslims wait until science discovered those things...?" Yahoo Answers. ''n.d.'' Web. 02 October 2014.]</ref>}}
{{cquote|One also hears arguments like the Quoran [sic] must be true because X was stated in Quoran [sic] and later it was shown by modern science that X is true. I would like to point out that many science fiction writers wrote about travel to the Moon and travel under the sea before technology made such feats possible. If we apply similar standards of logic then we must also conclude that these science fiction writers were inspired by an omnipotent divinity.|||Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/soc.culture.indian.jammu-kashmir/g3Wqen_G_WA/eTjMtIoVITMJ Bhattacharyya, Nalinaksha. "QURAN is not word of GOD". 23 January 1997. Web. 13 October 2014.]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Bucaille bends the meaning of the Arabic words to suit his own ideas.|||Michael Negus<ref>{{cite book
| publisher= Continuum International Publishing Group
| page= 332
| last= Negus
| first= Michael Robert
| others= God, humanity, and the cosmos, Edition: 2, illustrated, revised, by Christopher Southgate, John Hedley Brooke, Celia Deane-Drummond
| title= [http://books.google.com/?id=2euuM3YOh6YC&dq=God,+humanity,+and+the+cosmos Islam and Science]
| year= 2005
| isbn= 978-0-567-03016-0
}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|''These are revelations of the Scripture that maketh plain.''|||{{Qur'an|26|2}} on the clarity of the Qur'an.<ref group=note>See also {{Qur'an|2|2||1}}, {{Qur'an|27|1||1}}, {{Qur'an|44|58||1}}, {{Qur'an|54|17||1}}, {{Qur'an|54|22||1}}, {{Qur'an|54|32||1}}, and {{Qur'an|54|40||1}}.</ref>}}{{cquote|''He it is Who hath revealed unto thee (Muhammad) the Scripture wherein are clear revelations - they are the substance of the Book - and others (which are) allegorical.''|||{{Qur'an|3|7}} on the (semi-)allegorical nature of the Qur'an.}}

==See also==
*[[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]]
*[[Qur'an]]
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Qur'an]]
*[[Dhu al-Qarnayn]]
*[[Qur'an contradictions]]
*[[Qur'an scientific errors]]
*[[List of actions prohibited by the Qur'an]]

==External links==
*[http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Science "Islam and Science"] by [[WikiIslam]]
**[http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islamic_Prophecies "Islamic Prophecies"] by WikiIslam
*[http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Science/index.htm "Qur'an and Science"] by [[Answering-Islam]]
*{{wpa|Islam and Science}}
**{{wpa|Scientific foreknowledge in sacred texts}}
**{{wpa|Quran and miracles}}
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/5g97px/what_an_actual_scientific_miracle_in_the_quran/ What an actual scientific miracle in the Quran would look like], /r/exmusmlim
*[http://www.hamzatzortzis.com/does-the-quran-contain-scientific-miracles-a-new-approach/ DOES THE QUR’AN CONTAIN SCIENTIFIC MIRACLES? A NEW APPROACH ON HOW TO RECONCILE AND DISCUSS SCIENCE IN THE QUR’AN]
*[http://dawahganda.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/muslims-against-science-in-quran-claims.html?m=1 Muslims against the "Science in the Qur'an" Claims]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyf4gecrY8c The Book of Signs: There are no scientific miracles in the Qur'an: GDM Show]
*[http://infidels.org/kiosk/article/predicting-modern-science-epicurus-vs-mohammed-362.html Predicting Modern Science: Epicurus vs. Mohammed]
*[https://mukto-mona.com/Articles/super_scientific_scriptures.htm Super-Scientific Religious Scriptures!]
*[http://infidels.org/library/modern/denis_giron/islamsci.html Islamic Science: Does Islamic literature contain scientific miracles?]
*[http://edis.sites.truman.edu/quran-science-scientific-miracles-from-the-7th-century/ “Quran-science”: Scientific miracles from the 7th century?]

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