Its been said elsewhere many times  that there are supposidly many things in the Koran that could not have been known by a 6th century man (embryology, bees, the big bang etc) .  Having  looked at them,  personally I'm not convinced, but some find them more compeling.

For those that do believe them I've got a couple of questions:


1) Can they name any scientific discovery that arose because of something someone saw in the Koran?

2) Why, if there is the big bang, sex of bees, human embryology etc. in the Koran is there not also anything more useful e.g. how to make antibiotics, microbiology, clean water, immunisation, sterile surgury, anaethestics etc that would have helped relieved much human suffering?



   

The qur'an is a book of signs. Some inspirational while others are scientific. So the mentioning of things in relation to science are mentioned as a sign for humanity to discover that the qur'an is from Allah and that islam is the true religion. Thus mentioning all scientific information is not necessary, which is why the information of how to make clean water, antibiotics, etc., is not mentioned.