Western scholars find selves playing role in touting ‘science’ of the Quran Posted by Scott Manning on January 24, 2002 | Comments (0)

Joe Leigh Simpson, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is a church-going Presbyterian. But thanks to a few conferences he attended back in the 1980s, he is known in parts of the Muslim world as a champion of the doctrine that the Quran, Islam’s holy book, is historically and scientifically correct in every detail. Dr. Simpson now says he made some comments that sound “silly and embarrassing” taken out of context, but no matter: Mideast television shows, Muslim books and Web sites still quote him as saying the Quran must have been “derived from God,” because it foresaw modern discoveries in embryology and genetics.

Simpson is just one of several non-Muslim scientists who have found themselves caught up in the publicity machine of a fast-growing branch of Islamic fundamentalism.Full Story...