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'''Keith Leon Moore''' (born 5 October 1925 in Brantford, Ontario) is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy, in the Faculty of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moore is associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences in the university's Faculty of Medicine, and was Chair of Anatomy from 1976 to 1984. He is a founding member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/honored/moore.html|title=Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref><ref name="anatomy.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anatomy.org/content/keith-l-moore|title=Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist|publisher=American Association of Anatomists |accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/pastpresidents.html|title=American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> | '''Keith Leon Moore''' (born 5 October 1925 in Brantford, Ontario) is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy, in the Faculty of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moore is associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences in the university's Faculty of Medicine, and was Chair of Anatomy from 1976 to 1984. He is a founding member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/honored/moore.html|title=Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref><ref name="anatomy.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anatomy.org/content/keith-l-moore|title=Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist|publisher=American Association of Anatomists |accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/pastpresidents.html|title=American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents|publisher=American Association of Clinical Anatomists|accessdate=2011-06-29}}</ref> Since the 1980s, Moore's words about the Quran have been regularly cited by those promoting the Quranic verses relating to human embryology. | ||
==Islamic Embryology== | ==Islamic Embryology== | ||
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==Moore's Current Views== | ==Moore's Current Views== | ||
The result of Moore's and Zindani's collaboration is not an academic book and subsequent editions omit and contradict the "Islamic additions". | The result of Moore's and Zindani's collaboration is not an academic book and subsequent editions omit, and his other publications contradict the "Islamic additions". | ||
For example, in 1986 he wrote that "The drop or nutfa [in Surah 23:13] has been interpreted as the sperm or spermatozoon, but a more meaningful interpretation would be the zygote which divides to form a blastocyst which is implanted in the uterus ("a place of rest"),"<ref>A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an. Journal of the Islamic Medical Association, 1986: vol.18, Page 15-16 .</ref> but in the 8<sup>th</sup> edition of The Developing Human (published 2007), he writes that "Growth of science was slow during the medieval period... human beings [according to the Qur'an] are produced from a mixture of secretions from the male and female. Several references are made to the creation of a human being from a nutfa (small drop). It also states that the resulting organism settles in the womb like a seed, 6 days after its beginning."<ref>Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, Chapter 1 - HISTORICAL GLEANINGS - The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 8th edition, 2007, ISBN: 978-1416037064</ref> | For example, in 1986 he wrote that "The drop or nutfa [in Surah 23:13] has been interpreted as the sperm or spermatozoon, but a more meaningful interpretation would be the zygote which divides to form a blastocyst which is implanted in the uterus ("a place of rest"),"<ref>A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an. Journal of the Islamic Medical Association, 1986: vol.18, Page 15-16 .</ref> but in the 8<sup>th</sup> edition of The Developing Human (published 2007), he writes that "Growth of science was slow during the medieval period... human beings [according to the Qur'an] are produced from a mixture of secretions from the male and female. Several references are made to the creation of a human being from a nutfa (small drop). It also states that the resulting organism settles in the womb like a seed, 6 days after its beginning."<ref>Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, Chapter 1 - HISTORICAL GLEANINGS - The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 8th edition, 2007, ISBN: 978-1416037064</ref> | ||
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J. Needham, a well known authority on the history of embryology and a reference cited in Keith Moore's books, has also dismissed embryology in the Qur'an as merely "a seventh-century echo of Aristotle and the Ayer-veda."<ref>J. Needham, Cambridge, 2nd edition 1959, A History of Embryology, page 77.</ref> | J. Needham, a well known authority on the history of embryology and a reference cited in Keith Moore's books, has also dismissed embryology in the Qur'an as merely "a seventh-century echo of Aristotle and the Ayer-veda."<ref>J. Needham, Cambridge, 2nd edition 1959, A History of Embryology, page 77.</ref> | ||
== | ==Discounting his Involvement== | ||
Moore's current CV does not reflect any involvement with Islam, the Qur'an or Islamic embryology. It also omits mentioning the 3<sup>rd</sup> edition of The Developing Human and its connections to Islamic terrorists. Nor does he mention his lecture in Saudi Arabia or any of his Islam-related activities in Muslim-majority countries. | Moore's current CV does not reflect any involvement with Islam, the Qur'an or Islamic embryology. It also omits mentioning the 3<sup>rd</sup> edition of The Developing Human and its connections to Islamic terrorists. Nor does he mention his lecture in Saudi Arabia or any of his Islam-related activities in Muslim-majority countries. | ||