Religion and Science have always been considered to be twin sisters by Islam, and today at a time when Science has taken great strides, they still continue to be associated.
Furthermore, certain scientific data are used for a better understanding of the Quranic text.
In this century, scientific findings have dealt a fatal blow to religious belief for many; it is precisely in the light of such scientific discoveries that an objective examination of the Islamic Revelation can be made, which highlights the supernatural character of that Revelation.
After a ten-year study, the famous French physician Maurice Bucaille addressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976, and expressed the com plete agreement of the Quran and findings of modern science. He presented his study on certain statements in the Quran concerning physiology and reproduction.
His reason for doing so was that: "Our knowledge of these disciplines is such that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Quran could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times".
Decades later, noted embryologist and expert, Keith L. Moore, upon being presented with the statements made in the Quran regarding the stages of formation of the embryo -- from the mixing of the male and female gametes up to the embryo’s full development remarked: "It has been a pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have com e to Muhammad from God because almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later."
