Keith L. Moore

professor
Keith L. Moore
PhD, DSc, FIAC, FRSM, FAAA
Born Keith Leon Moore
(1925-10-05) 5 October 1925
Brantford, Ontario
Education Stratford Collegiate Vocational Institute, University of Western Ontario (BA 1949, MS 1951, PhD 1954)
Occupation lecturer
Years active 1956–1993
Employer University of Toronto
Organization Division of Anatomy, Dept of Surgery
Known for Clinical Anatomy
Notable work Clinically Oriented Anatomy
Awards 2007 Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award

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

Moore has co-written (with Professor Arthur F. Dalley and Professor Anne M. R. Agur) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, an English-language anatomy textbook.[5] He also co-wrote (with Professor Anne M. R. Agur and Professor Arthur F. Dalley) Essential Clinical Anatomy.[6]

Awards

The American Association of Clinical Anatomists awarded Dr. Moore, the previous president, with their Honored Member Award (in 1994).[7][8] The American Association of Anatomists awarded him the Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award in 2007 for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences.[2][3][9]

Further awards, appointments and honors include:

Embryology in The Qur'an

In 1980 Dr. 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 interpreting certain verses in the Qur’an and some sayings in the Hadiths which referred to human reproduction and embryological development. Moore says that he was amazed at the scientific accuracy of some of the statements which were made in the 7th century AD:

For the past three years, I have worked with the Embryology Committee of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, helping them interpret the many statements in the Qur’an and Sunnah 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.[11]

Moore worked with the Embryology Committee on a comparative study of the Qur’an, the Hadith and modern embryology.[12] The Committee presented and published several papers with Moore and others co-authoring a number of papers. [13]

Moore is not a Muslim[14] but his work with King Abdulaziz University's Embryology Committee has been critiqued by biologist PZ Myers:

For instance, the old book claims that at one point the embryo looks like a piece of chewed gum, or mudghah, and Moore announces, “by golly, it does, sorta”, throwing away all the knowledge we have about the structure and appearance of the actual embryo, which is not a chewed lump.[15]

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." [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  2. 1 2 "Keith L. Moore: My 60 years as a Clinical Anatomist". American Association of Anatomists. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  3. 1 2 "Keith L. Moore". American Association of Anatomists. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  4. ↑ "American Association of Clinical Anatomists – Past Presidents". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  5. ↑ Clinically Oriented Anatomy. Amazon. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  6. ↑ Essential Clinical Anatomy. Amazon. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  7. ↑ "AACA Awards – Honored Member". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  8. ↑ "Honored Member Award 1994 Keith L. Moore, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM". American Association of Clinical Anatomists. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  9. ↑ "Past and Current Award Winners". American Association of Anatomists. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  10. ↑ Jeffery, Kim. "Queens Diamond Jubille comes to Barrie". Snap Magazine. Snap Newspaper company. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Human Development as Described in the Qurʼan and Sunnah. 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.
  14. ↑ Moore states that he is not a Muslim at a lecture delivered at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA on 8 May 1990. http://islampapers.com/2012/03/17/moorequestion
  15. ↑ Islamic apologetics in the International Journal of Cardiology by PZ Myers, 3 November 2010
  16. ↑ Golden, Daniel (23 January 2002). "Western Scholars Play Key Role In Touting 'Science' of the Quran". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2013.

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