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11 Feb 2015

Embryology

This brief video by Talk Islam discusses one of the stages of human embryonic development as portrayed in the Qurʾān (23:12-14).  The focus here is on the word ʿalaqah.  The narrator suggests that an embryo at 22 days old matches the possible descriptions of the word, as being a blood clot, suspended, or a leech, and steps through his arguments for each of these.  The video closes by quoting surah 41:53.

Talk Islam creates a variety of popular videos using ideas and imagery of iʿjāz.

There are a variety of critiques of this video.

Evaluation:

Other embryologists find this material erroneous. (See, for instance, this video with PZ Myers discussing similar approaches.)  This form of iʿjāz uses the Qurʾān to understand science, which scientists consider an inappropriate methodology.

The material on Islam is within the bounds of what Muslims have historically understood as acceptable.

There is insufficient historical material on which to base an evaluation.