Occupation lecturer Name Keith Moore | Years active 1956–1993 | |
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Full Name Keith Leon Moore Notable work Clinically Oriented Anatomy Awards 2007 Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award Education University of Western Ontario Parents Gertrude M. Moore, James H. Moore Books Clinically oriented anatomy, The developing human, Embriologia Clinica, Essential Clinical Anatomy, Before we are born Similar People Maurice Bucaille, Frank H Netter, Arthur Guyton, Murray Barr, Johannes Sobotta |
Embryology in the qur an lecture by dr keith l moore university of illinois 1990
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), and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991.
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- Embryology in the qur an lecture by dr keith l moore university of illinois 1990
- Question to dr keith l moore are you are a muslim
- Awards
- Embryology in The Quran
- References
Moore has co-written (with Professor Arthur F. Dalley and Professor Anne M. R. Agur) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, an English-language anatomy textbook. He also co-wrote (with Professor Anne M. R. Agur and Professor Arthur F. Dalley) Essential Clinical Anatomy.

Question to dr keith l moore are you are a muslim
Awards

The American Association of Clinical Anatomists awarded Dr. Moore, the previous president, with their Honored Member Award (in 1994). The American Association of Anatomists awarded him the Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award in 2007 for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences.

Further awards, appointments and honors include:
Embryology in The Qur'an
In 1980 Dr. Moore was invited to Saudi Arabia to lecture on anatomy and embryology at King Abdulaziz University. While he was there, Moore was approached by the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University for his assistance in interpreting certain verses in the Qur’an and some sayings in the Hadiths which referred to human reproduction and embryological development. Moore says that he was amazed at the scientific accuracy of some of the statements which were made in the 7th century AD:
For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them interpret the many statements in the Qur’an and Sunnah referring to human reproduction and prenatal development. At first I was astonished by the accuracy of the statements that were recorded in the 7th century AD, before the science of embryology was established.Moore worked with the Embryology Committee on a comparative study of the Qur’an, the Hadith and modern embryology. The Committee presented and published several papers with Moore and others co-authoring a number of papers.
Moore is not a Muslim but his work with King Abdulaziz University's Embryology Committee has been critiqued by biologist PZ Myers:
For instance, the old book claims that at one point the embryo looks like a piece of chewed gum, or mudghah, and Moore announces, “by golly, it does, sorta”, throwing away all the knowledge we have about the structure and appearance of the actual embryo, which is not a chewed lump.
In 2002, Moore declined to be interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on the subject of his work on Islam, stating that "it's been ten or eleven years since I was involved in the Qur'an."