The Bible, The Qur'an & Science
By - Dr. Maurice Bucaille
The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science is an
objective study of the Old Testament, the Gospels and the Qur'an. This
book seeks to spiritually unite by highlighting similarities in the
texts. It sheds new light and dispels many preconceived ideas in
separating what belongs to Revelation from what is the product of error
or human interpretation.
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| Dr. Maurice Bucaille |
Dr. Maurice
Bucaille (19 July 1920 in Pont-L'Eveque, France- 17 February 1998), son of
Maurice and Marie (James) Bucaille, was a French medical doctor, member of the
French Society of Egyptology, and an author. Bucaille practiced medicine from
1945–82 and was a specialist in gastroenterology. In 1973, Bucaille was
appointed family physician to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Another of his
patients at the time included members of the family of then President of Egypt,
Anwar Sadat.
Introduction of Main Book:
Each of the three monotheistic religions
possess its own collection of Scriptures. For the faithful-be they Jews,
Christians or Muslims-these documents constitute the foundation of their
belief. For them they are the material transcription of a divine Revelation;
directly, as in the case of Abraham and Moses, who received the commandments
from God Himself, or indirectly, as in the case of Jesus and Muhammad, the
first of whom stated that he was speaking in the name of the Father, and the
second of whom transmitted to men the Revelation imparted to him by Archangel
Gabriel.
If we take into consideration the
objective facts of religious history, we must place the Old Testament, the
Gospels and the Qur'an on the same level as being collections of written
Revelation. Although this attitude is in principle held by Muslims, the
faithful in the West under the predominantly Judeo-Christian influence refuse
to ascribe to the Qur'an the character of a book of Revelation. Such an attitude
may be explained by the position each religious community adopts towards the
other two with regard to the Scriptures.
Judaism has as its holy book the Hebraic
Bible. This differs from the Old Testament of the Christians in that the latter
have included several books which did not exist in Hebrew. In practice, this
divergence hardly makes any difference to the doctrine. Judaism does not
however admit any revelation subsequent to its own.
Christianity has taken the Hebraic Bible
for itself and added a few supplements to it. It has not however accepted all
the published writings destined to make known to men the Mission of Jesus. The
Church has made incisive cuts in the profusion of books relating the life and
teachings of Jesus. It has only preserved a limited number of writings in the
New Testament, the most important of which are the four Canonic Gospels.
Christianity takes no account of any revelation subsequent to Jesus and his
Apostles. It therefore rules out the Qur'an.
The Qur'anic Revelation appeared six
centuries after Jesus. It resumes numerous data found in the Hebraic Bible and
the Gospels since it quotes very frequently from the 'Torah' [ What is meant by Torah are the first five books of the
Bible, in other words the Pentateuch of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy).] and the 'Gospels.' The Qur'an directs all
Muslims to believe in the Scriptures that precede it (sura
4, verse 136). It stresses the important position occupied in the
Revelation by God's emissaries, such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, the Prophets and
Jesus, to whom they allocate a special position. His birth is described in the
Qur'an, and likewise in the Gospels, as a supernatural event. Mary is also
given a special place, as indicated by the fact that sura 19 bears her name.
The above facts concerning Islam are not
generally known in the West. This is hardly surprising, when we consider the
way so many generations in the West were instructed in the religious problems
facing humanity and the ignorance in which they were kept about anything
related to Islam. The use of such terms as 'Mohammedan religion' and
'Mohammedans' has been instrumental-even to the present day-in maintaining the
false notion that beliefs were involved that were spread by the work of man
among which God (in the Christian sense) had no place. Many cultivated people
today are interested in the philosophical, social and political aspects of
Islam, but they do not pause to inquire about the Islamic Revelation itself, as
indeed they should.
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