Critical Review of the Misconceptions on Embryology Verses in the Book “Criticism of the Qur’an

Recently a book called “Criticism of the Qur’an” by a person named Soha has been published, claimed by the oponents as the most complete book on criticizing the Holy Qur’an, and the author attempted to prove the existence of errors and weakness in the Qur’an. Some of its misconceptions criticize the stages of the Evolution of emberyo and stimation of the time of determining its gender from the point of view of the Qur’an and Sunnah and then assume them as scientific errors. The present paper, based on the descriptive-analytical method in a critical approach, is to present a strong and scientific answer to these misconceptions and proves the truth of the holy Qur’an, through examining them carefully. Findings show that the stages of the evolution of emberyo as well as the times of creating and placing it and the cause of determining its gender in the Qur’an and Sunnah are exactly compatible with medical inventions and confirmed by these sciences.