" A totally objective examination of it (The Quran) in the light of modern knowledge leads us to recognize the agreement between the two, as has been already noted on repeated occasion. It makes us deem it quite unthinkable for a man of Muhammad's time to have been the author of such statements, on account of the state of knowledge in his day.
Such consideration are part of what gives the Qur'anic Revelation its unique place, and force the impartial scientist to admit his inability to provide and explanation which calls solely upon materialistic reasoning".
Dr. Maurice Bucaille Member of the French society of Egyptology, and an author.