Dr. Maurice Bucaille is an eminent French surgeon, scientist, scholar
and author of “THE BIBLE THE QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE”, and
“WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF MAN?” which contains the result of his
research into the Judeo-Christian Revelation and the Qur’an. It is a
unique contribution in the field of religion and science.
Being an outstanding scientist, he was selected to treat the mummy
of Merneptah (Pharaoh) which he did. During his visit to Saudi Arabia
he was shown the verses of the Holy Qur’an in which Allah - God
Almighty says that the dead body of the Pharaoh will be preserved as
a ‘sign’ for posterity. As an impartial scientist, Dr. Bucaille, who (being
also a Christian) was conversant with the Biblical version of Pharaoh’s
story as being drowned in pursuit of Prophet Moses, was pleasantly
surprised to learn that unknown to the world till only of late, the
Holy Qur’an made a definite prediction about the preservation of
the body of that same Pharaoh of Moses’ time. This led Dr. Bucaille
to study the Qur’an thoroughly, after learning the Arabic language.
The final conclusion of his comparative study of the Qur’an and the
Bible is that the statements about scientific phenomena in the Holy
Qur’an are perfectly in conformity with the modern sciences whereas
the Biblical narrations on the same subjects are scientifically entirely
unacceptable.

On 9 NOVEMBER 1976, an unusual lecture was given at the French
Academy of Medicine. Its title was ‘Physiological and Embryological
data in the Qur’an’. I presented my study on the existence in the Qur’an
of certain statements concerning physiology and reproduction. My
reason for doing this was that our knowledge of these disciplines
is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at the
time of the Qur’an could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times.

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