God Arises

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 377 ~ discovery of the circulation of the blood roughly ten centuries after the Quranic revelation. “I consider that the existence in the Quran of the verse referring to these concepts can have no human explanation on account of the period in which they were formulated.” MODERN PHYSICS AND THE QURAN Another point on which human intelligence appeared to have arrived at a major scientific truth was that of the true nature of light. It was Sir Issac Newton (1642-1727) who put forward the theory that light consisted of minute corpuscles in rapid motion which emanated from their source and were scattered in the atmosphere. Owing to the extraordinary influence of Newton, this corpuscular theory held sway over the scientific world for a very long time, only to be abandoned in the middle of the nineteenth century in favour of the wave theory of light. It was the discovery of the action of photon, which delivered the final blow to Newton’s theory. “Young’s work convinced scientists that light has essential wave characteristics in apparent contradiction to Newton’s corpuscular theory.”28