Dr. Keith Moore

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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),[1][2][3] and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.[4]

Dr. Moore is the only embryologist quoted by Islamic sources in an attempt to prove embryology as described in the Qur'an is scientifically correct. In the 1980s he accepted an invitation by the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University to produce a special edition of his Embryology textbook "The Developing Human" specifically for use by Muslim students in Islamic Universities. He was financially patronized by the Saudi royal family for the use of his name, and for no real additional work. The textbook he delivered to the Saudi Universities that commissioned the work is titled, "The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology with Islamic Additions." (ISBN 0-7216-6472-5). The base textbook was work that Moore had completed years before. He did nothing new for this new edition. The “Islamic Additions” are actually the work of an Abdul-Majeed A. Azzindani, and not Dr. Moore’s at all.


and subsequent editions of the book omit and contradict the "Islamic additions", basically admitting that the embryology in the Qur'an is a repetition of Greek and Indian medicine[5] For example

Also, J. Needham, a well known authority on the history of embryology and a reference cited in Keith Moore's books as well dismissed embryology in the holy Quran as merely "a seventh-century echo of Aristotle and the Ayer-veda" (J. Needham, Cambridge, 2nd edition 1959, A History of Embryology, page 77).

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References

  1. "Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM", American Association of Clinical Anatomists, http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/honored/moore.html. 
  2. "Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist", American Association of Anatomists, http://www.anatomy.org/content/keith-l-moore. 
  3. "Keith L. Moore", American Association of Anatomists, http://aaatoday.org/content/keith-l-moore. 
  4. "American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents", American Association of Clinical Anatomists, http://www.clinical-anatomy.org/pastpresidents.html. 
  5. Keith L. Moore (Author), T. V. N. Persaud (Author), The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition, ISBN: 0721694128. Page 9