This book was published by
American Trust Publications in 1979. Dr. Bucaille says that as an educated person with a
scientific mind, it is very hard to believe in a holy book with the word of God being the
ultimate source of knowledge if the holy book contradicts modern science. With that in
mind, he concludes that the Holy Quran is the word of God untampered by humans and not
contradicting science. In the case of the old testament or new testament, the human
modification has made it scientifically unacceptable. To prove his point, he is giving the
following examples:
1. Creation of the world:
Genesis 1:1: The world was created in 6 days, light was created on the first day and the
sun was created on the 4th day. This is scientifically incorrect.
The Quran says that God
created the world in 6 periods.
2. Genesis 1:7 indicates on
the first day water was created everywhere and God separated the waters with firmament
into heaven and earth on Day 2. This is scientifically incorrect. At the beginning, the
whole world was a gaseous mass and was then divided and cooled off (big bang hypothesis).
The Quran says the world was a
gaseous mass before it was divided up.
3. Genesis 1:13 states God
created vegetables on the third day and the sun was created on the 4th day.
It is not scientifically
acceptable to have vegetables survive without the sun.
4. In the Jewish calendar, the
year of creation is 5755. This is based on the date that Prophet Adam came to earth
(Genesis 4:1) and the world was created.
This is not scientifically
correct. The world was created millions of years ago as were the humans on earth.
5. The story of the flood -
Genesis 6:7. The Bible indicates that the big flood 4000 years ago was universal and the
whole world was destroyed except for Prophet Noah and his arc. This is not scientifically
possible and historically is not correct. Other nations existed 4000 years ago and were
not affected by the flood.
The Quran indicates that the
flood was a local event and not a worldwide flood.
Dr. Bucaille calls the Bible
"the memories of the apostles". Mathew was a customs officer who wrote his
memories of Jesus, Mark was an eyewitness to Jesus' life, Luke was a physician who wrote
about Jesus. John was very close to Jesus and wrote his memory, and Paul who wrote his
letters in 50 A.D., was a supporter of separating Christianity from Judaism. Paul did not
know Jesus when Jesus was alive, but saw Jesus' spirit when he was going to Damascus. Paul
wrote major portions of the Bible and advocated that male Christians may not be
circumcised and may eat pork in order to be different from the Jews. He promoted many
differences that exist between Jews and Christians. The 4 gospels were produced 70-110
years after Jesus' death. The description of various events are different in the 4 gospels
indicating human error.
6. The genealogy of Jesus,
according to Mathew and the old testament, indicates that Abraham lived in 1850 B.C., and
from Abraham to prophet Adam the first man was 20 generations of man.
This is scientifically
incorrect. From the first man to Prophet Abraham, there were probably millions of
generations.
7. Dr. Bucaille points out,
with reference, many contradictions between the 4 gospels and Paul's letters on important
events like Jesus' death, resurrection, ascension, and the last super (pages 82-102).
Dr. Bucaille then examines the
Quran by the same standards and points out various miracles of the Quran. He concludes
that the Quran is the only Holy Book that is the word of God in total, unaltered by human
hands and preserved in its original language and text, and could not have been written by
the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) without revelation from God. God through the Angel Gebrael,
revealed the Quran to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) piece by piece over a 23 year period. As
Prophet was uttering revealed portions, his companions wrote it down. It then was put
together a few years after the Prophet's death into its existing format. One of the
original copies of the Quran compiled by Khalifeh Ottman still exists in its original form
in the Istanbul Museum in Turkey. |