The Bible, The Qur'an and Science

The Bible, The Qur'an and Science

• Part 1: The Holy Scriptures Examined In The Light Of Modern Knowledge, Foreword and Introduction
• Part 2: The Old Testament, Origins of The Bible, The Books of The Old Testament, The Torah or Pentateuch, The Historical Books, The Prophetic Books and The Books of Poetry and Wisdom
• Part 3: The Old Testament and Science Findings, The Creation of the World, First Description of the Creation, Second Description, The Date of The World's Creation and The Date of Man's Appearance on Earth, From Adam to Abraham, From Abraham to the Beginnings Of Christianity, The Flood, Position Of Christian Authors with regard To Scientific error in The Biblical Texts. A Critical Examination, Conclusions
• Part 4: The Gospels – Introduction, Historical reminder Judeo-Christianity And Saint Paul, The Four Gospels, Sources and history, The Gospel according to Matthew, The Gospel according to Mark, The Gospel according to Luke, The Gospel according to John, Sources of the Gospels, history of the Texts
• Part 5: The Gospels and modern Science - The General Genealogies of Jesus, Variations in the Manuscripts and in relation to the Old Testament, Matthew's Gospel, Luke's Gospel, Critical examination of the texts, The period from Adam to Abraham, The Period from Abraham to David, The Post-David Period, Commentaries of modern experts In exegesis
• Part 6: Contradictions and improbabilities in the descriptions, Descriptions of the passion, John's Gospel does not describe the institution of the Eucharist, Appearances of Jesus raised from the dead, Ascension of Jesus, Jesus's last dialogues, The Paraclete of John's Gospel, Conclusions
• Part 7: The Qur'an and modern Science – Introduction, authenticity of the Qur'an, how it came to be written
• Part 8: The creation of the Heavens and the Earth - Differences from and resemblances to the Biblical description, The six periods of the creation, The Qur'an does not lay down a sequence for the creation of the earth and heavens, The basic process of the formation of the universe and the resulting composition of the worlds, Some modern scientific data concerning the formation of the universe - The solar system, The galaxies, formation and evolution of galaxies, Star and Planetary Systems, The concept of the plurality of the worlds, interstellar material, confrontation with the data in the Qur'an concerning the creation, answers to certain objections
• Part 9: Astronomy in the Qur'an, General reflections concerning the sky, nature of heavenly bodies, the sun and the moon, the stars, the planets, the lowest heaven, celestial organization, the existence of the moon's and the sun's orbits, The moon's orbit, the sun, reference to the movement of the moon and the sun in space with their own motion, the sequence of day and night, evolution of the heavens, the expansion of the universe, the conquest of space
• Part 10: The earth, verses containing general statements, the water cycle and the seas, the earth's relief, the earth's atmosphere, altitude, electricity in the atmosphere, shadows
• Part 11: The animal and vegetable kingdoms, the origins of life, balance in the vegetable kingdom, the different qualities of various foods, reproduction in the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, reproduction in the animal kingdom, references to the existence of animal communities, statements concerning bees, spiders and birds, the source of the constituents of animal milk
• Part 12: Human reproduction, reminder of certain basic concepts, human reproduction in the Qur'an, fertilization is performed by only a very small volume of liquid, the constituents of the fertilizing liquid, the implantation of the egg in the female genital organs, evolution of the embryo inside the uterus, The Qur'an and sex education
• Part 13: Qur'anic and Biblical narrations, general outlines, Parallel 1: Qur'an and Gospel and modem knowledge, Parallel 2: Qur'an and Old Testament and modem knowledge, the Flood, The Biblical narration of the flood and the criticism levelled at it, a reminder, the narration of the flood contained in the Qur'an, The Exodus, The Exodus according to the Bible, The Exodus according to the Qur'an,
• Part 14: Confrontation between scriptural data and modern knowledge, examination of certain details contained in the narrations the Hebrews in Egypt, The Plagues of Egypt, the route taken by the Exodus, the miraculous parting of the waters, the point occupied by the Exodus in the history of the Pharaohs, Rameses II, Pharaoh of the oppression Merneptah, Pharaoh of the Exodus, the problem of the Stele dating from the fifth year of Merneptah's reign, the description contained in the holy scriptures of the pharaoh's death during the Exodus, pharaoh Merneptah's mummy, The Qur'an, Ahadith and modern science, general conclusions