Keith L. Moore

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Keith L. Moore
PhD, DSc, FIAC, FRSM, FAAA
Born
Keith Leon Moore

(1925-10-05)5 October 1925
Brantford, Ontario [1]
Died25 November 2019(2019-11-25) (aged 94)
EducationStratford Collegiate Vocational Institute, University of Western Ontario (BA 1949, MS 1951, PhD 1954)
Occupationlecturer
Years active1956–1993
EmployerUniversity of Toronto
Organization(s)Division of Anatomy, Dept of Surgery
Known for Clinical Anatomy
Notable workClinically Oriented Anatomy
Awards2007 Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award

Keith Leon Moore (5 October 1925 - 25 November 2019) [2] was a professor in the division of anatomy, in the faculty of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moore was associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences in the university's faculty of Medicine and was Chair of Anatomy from 1976 to 1984. He was a founding member of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) [3] [1] [4] and was President of the AACA between 1989 and 1991. [5]

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Moore has co-written (with Professor Arthur F. Dalley and Professor Anne M. R. Agur) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, an English-language anatomy textbook. [6] He also co-wrote (with Professor Anne M. R. Agur and Professor Arthur F. Dalley) Essential Clinical Anatomy. [7]

Awards

The American Association of Clinical Anatomists awarded Moore, the previous president, with their Honored Member Award (in 1994). [8] [9] The American Association of Anatomists awarded him the Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award in 2007 for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences. [1] [4] [10]

Further awards, appointments and honors include:

Embryology in the Qur'an

In 1980, Moore was invited to Saudi Arabia to lecture on anatomy and embryology at King Abdulaziz University. While he was there, Moore was approached by the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University for his assistance in reinterpreting certain verses in the Qur’an and some sayings in the Hadiths which referred to human reproduction and embryological development. [12] Moore said that he was amazed at the scientific accuracy of some of the statements which were made in the 7th century.

For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them reinterpret the many statements in the Qur’an, Sunnah, Kabbalah and Talmud referring to human reproduction and prenatal development. At first, I was astonished by the accuracy of the statements that were recorded in the 7th century AD, before the science of embryology was established. [13]

Moore worked with the Embryology Committee on a comparative study of the Qur’an, the Hadith and modern embryology. [14] [15] The Committee presented and published several papers with Moore and others co-authoring a number of papers. [16]

A special edition of Moore's medical school textbook, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, was published for the Muslim world in 1983. The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology with Islamic Additions, [17] included "pages with embryology-related Quranic verse and hadith" by co-author Abdul Majeed al-Zindani.

In 2002, Moore declined to be interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on the subject of his work on Islam, stating that "it's been ten or eleven years since I was involved in the Qur'an." [18]

Moore's works have been used for religious purposes, which has not been without scientific criticism, with the most well-known coming from fellow developmental biologist PZ Myers, [12] [19] who states that Moore's views expressed in his works were "ridiculous claims" and "pareidolia run amuck and swamping out actual scientific information for the sake of propping up useless superstitions." Physicist Taner Edis criticized him and Maurice Bucaille for reading modern medical details into vague and general statements in the Qur'an. [20]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist". American Association of Anatomists. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "DR. KEITH LEON MOORE Obituary (1925 - 2019) Toronto Star". Legacy.com. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Keith L. Moore". American Association of Anatomists. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Moore, Keith L.; Dalley, Arthur F.; Agur, Anne M. R. (2009). Clinically Oriented Anatomy. ISBN   978-1605476520.
  7. ↑ Moore, Keith L.; Agur, A. M. R.; Dalley, Arthur F. (2011). Essential Clinical Anatomy. ISBN   978-0781799157.
  8. ↑ "AACA Awards – Honored Member". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  9. ↑ "Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  10. ↑ "Past and Current Award Winners". American Association of Anatomists. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  11. ↑ Jeffery, Kim. "Queens Diamond Jubille comes to Barrie". Snap Magazine. Snap Newspaper company. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  12. 1 2 Loring M. Danforth (2016). Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia. University of California Press. pp. 129–130. ISBN   9780520290273.
  13. ↑ Keith L. Moore and Abdul-Majeed A. Zindani, The Developing Human with Islamic Additions, 3rd ed. (Philadelphia: Saunders with Dar al-Qiblah for Islamic Literature, Jeddah, 1983, 1982). page viii insert c.
  14. ↑ A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an by Keith L. Moore. Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, Vol. 18, Jan-June 1986.
  15. ↑ Stenberg, Leif; Wood, Philip, eds. (2023). What Is Islamic Studies?: European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field. Edinburgh University Press. p. 134. ISBN   9781399500012.
  16. ↑ Human Development as Described in the Qurʼan and Sunnah Archived 20 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine . Editors A.A Zindani, Mustafa A. Ahmed, M.B. Tobin, and T. V. N. Persaud: Islamic Academy for Scientific Research, 1994. Collection of papers that were originally presented in international conferences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1983), Cairo, Egypt (1985), Islamabad, Pakistan (1987), and Dakar, Senegal (1991). The presentations were extended and revised and presented in their current form in Moscow, Russia in September 1993.
  17. ↑ Moore, Keith L. (1983). The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Emryology with Islamic Additions. Abul Qasim Publishing House (Saudi Arabia). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  18. ↑ Golden, Daniel (23 January 2002). "Western Scholars Play Key Role In Touting 'Science' of the Quran". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  19. ↑ Paul Zachary Myers(2010), Islamic apologetics in the International Journal of Cardiology, ScienceBlogs. Archived Retrieved 25 April 2024
  20. ↑ Taner Edis (2007). An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam. Prometheus Books. p. 96. ISBN   9781591024491.

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