They have also created a website concerned with the same topic. I have just visited. It is a very impressive piece of work. Please do take a look. Herewith a taster:
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the claims made by Hamza Tzortzis in his purported ?lexical analysis? of the terms in the Qur?an. The Qur?anic verses in question are 12-14 from chapter 23 which states the following,
(Yusuf Ali translation): ?Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay) (sulalatin min tin); (12) Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm (nutfah) in a place of rest firmly fixed (qararin makeen); (13) Then We made the sperm (nutfah) into a clot of congealed blood (alaqah); then of that clot (alaqah) We made a (foetus) lump (mudghahh) ; then We made out of that lump (mudghahh) bones (idhaamen) and clothed the bones with flesh (Fakasawna Idhaama Lahman); then We developed out of it another creature: so blessed be Allah, the Best to create! (14)?
Note: The relevant Arabic terms have been transliterated and can be found in red inside the parenthesis. The English terms in parenthesis are usually the interpretations of the translator and are not explicitly stated in the original language.
Regarding these verses, Hamza states the following on page 5 of version v2.1b,[iv]
One might wonder if in reality, the Qur?anic verse is ?uninvolved? and ?simplistic? in the original Arabic as well. It is rather intriguing how the same verse which was described as ?uninvolved? and ?simplistic? by Hamza himself, mutates into the following monstrosity after Hamza?s supposedly legitimate method of lexical analysis;
?Man We did create from ?the essential elements required for human life and functioning, found in clay? (sulalatin min tin)[v]; (12) Then We placed him as ?the formation of the zygote, via the mingling of two fluids from the mother and the father, which contains two small cell structures (the oocyte and the spermatozoon)" (nutfah)[vi] in ?the blastocyst sinking in the endometrium, being completely encased i.e. the process of implantation? (qararin makeen)[vii]; (13) Then We made the ?zygote? (nutfah) into ?the embryo...connected to the cytotrophoblast via a connecting stalk, as if it were hanging or suspended...upon the culmination of two processes - neurulation and the folding of the embryo? where ?the embryo appears worm or leech-like? and ?obtains its nutrients via contact with the maternal blood vessels? and ?the external features of the embryo resembles a blood-clot...due to the formation of the primary cardiovascular system and the lack of blood circulation until the end of the third week.? (alaqah)[viii]; then of that ?hanging leech-like blood suckling clot-like embryo? (alaqah) We made ?The development of somites giving the embryo the appearance of a chewed substance? during ?the organogenetic period (the development of organs, not yet fully formed)? (mudghahh)[ix] ; then We made out of that ?chewed fleshy substance with developed somites undergoing organogenesis? (mudghahh) ?the formation of the axial, limb and appendicular skeleton?(idhaamen)[x] and clothed ?the formation of the axial, limb and appendicular skeleton? with ?the migration and aggregation of the muscles cells around the developing limb and axial skeleton, to form muscles, tendons and connective tissue? (Fakasawna Idhaama Lahman)[xi]; then We developed out of it another creature: so blessed be Allah, the Best to create! (14)?
A single word such as ?alaqah? (i.e blood clot) has a meaning that is now four sentences long. Words such as ?qararin makeen? or ?place of rest? (i.e womb) now refer to various technical stages of developmental biology involving discrete terms like blastocyst and implantation. Even the least curious person in the world should have raised a red flag when presented with such a flamboyant display of the apologetic tactic of putting ?lipstick on a pig.?
Regular readers of Rational Islam? will know that this is a major bugbear of mine so I am delighted to pass on any information which may help to dispel the myth that the Qur'an contains details concerning embryology which it would have been impossible for a 7th century desert dweller to have known.
All power to your elbow, fellas...
And may I leave you with the same question I always pose about this time: If the Qur'an really is the uncreated word of God, why does it require such suspiciously UNscientific loons as Hamza and Sheik Azzindani and Yusuf Estes to draw our attention to it?
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