I guess semen from the backbone isn't false, afterall? [ISLAM]
Posted on: March 8, 2012 - 10:52pm
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I guess semen from the backbone isn't false, afterall? [ISLAM]
http://www.understanding-islam.com/q-and-a/miscellaneous-issues/does-semen-emanate-from-between-the-ribs-and-the-back-al-taariq-86...
Interesting, makes it seem there might be a little credibility to Islam.
If the verse really is true, how would you react?
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Your link is dead... here is one that works.
www.understanding-islam.com/q-and-a/miscellaneous-issues/does-semen-emanate-from-between-the-ribs-and-the-back-al-taariq-86-6-7-4836
prostate gland and the seminal vesicles. Trying to rope the abdominal aorta into the equation to support the Koran's lack of medical comprehension is an exercise in motivated reasoning. The verse is a meaningless repetition of Hippocrates misapprehensions that date all the way back to 500BCE. The first person to say anything sensible about blood flow was William Harvey in 1628. The authors of the Koran were oblivious to the nature of biological life. Muhammad was clearly better at using his gear than understanding it, if his alleged reports be true.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Making an observation does not mean you understand what you are observing. Both the Koran and Bible talk about "mountains moving", now since earthquakes have always existed, this is hardly a revelation, but both Christians and Muslims have tried to claim those ambiguous words to mean that the writers knew about plate tectonics.
This is no different. I also had a Muslim quote a verse "Congealed blood" as Muhammad knowing what a period was and therefor Allah picks the sex of the baby.
Humans have always observed periods because females will have them, but no one, no religion and no person back then knew one lick about the biological or scientific medical reality of what they were observing.
Holy books are not science textbooks and religions are not scientific institutions.
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