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dsgrue3 on 08 February 2013
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Roma said:

 "A central part of Aristotle’s ideas on embryology was the concept of the menstrual blood coagulating to form the embryo. He regarded menstrual blood as a kind of semen, which required the male semen to initiate development of the embryo by spontaneous generation"

http://www.islamicwritings.org/quran/medical-miracles/does-the-quran-plagiarise-ancient-greek-embryology/

he also made mistakes that are not in the Quran

oh and btw when quoting from the Quran make sure you are quoting the right words as Al-baqara does not talk about human embryology. 

when someone picks something randomly from the Quran to prove their point it means they are just spreading lies!

Alright, I think you're missing the point here. You act like the Qur'an goes into intimate details of the process. This is embryology in its entirety in the Qur'an:

  • "He makes you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness."
  • "Then We placed him as a drop in a place of rest."
  • "Then We made the drop into a leech-like structure."
  • "Then of that leech-like structure, We made a chewed lump."
  • "Then We made out of the chewed lump, bones, and clothed the bones in flesh." (Sura 23:14)
  • "Then We developed out of it another creature."
  • "And He gave you hearing and sight and feeling and understanding."
  • "Then out of a piece of chewed flesh, partly formed and partly unformed."
  • "And We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term."

This isn't revolutionary at all - it's incredibly ambiguous and not distinct from knowledge of Embyology of the time - it isn't erroneous because there isn't enough detail/specifics to show errors. 

Example:

The Sun rises and falls in the sky. Not erroneous from human perspective, but completely fallacious in regard to knowledge of orbit/rotation/axis tilt.