Were the First Words of the Quran about Genetic DNA?

By: Gemal Seede    Nov 7, 2022 No Comments


The first revealed words of the Qur'an tell us that the human species was created from the Arabic word GHALAQ. But the word doesn't have a universally accepted meaning. Could GHALAQ be genetic chromosomes made from DNA?

This video presents evidence from biology, genetics, and linguistics that it might.

Note: "gh" is most often used to transliterate the Arabic letter "غ" not "ع". So, my spelling of ghalaq is not a standard transliteration of the Arabic word علق. Most scholars would spell it as 'alaq, and others as ealaq. In this post, I didn't use standard transliteration tables because I felt the standard transliterations would be a distraction to non-Arabic speakers.

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