Surah 13:3
"He (it is) who stretched out the earth, and placed on it firm mountains and rivers. And of all the fruits He has placed on it two in pairs. He covers the day with the night. Surely in that are signs indeed for a people who reflect."
Claimed Miracle: Botany
APOLOGIST CLAIM
"The verse states 'and of all fruits He made therein two pairs', predicting that plants have male and female reproductive systems."
Refutation & Exegesis
While many plants do reproduce sexually (dioecious and monoecious), many others heavily rely on asexual reproduction, such as runners, tubers, and bulbs. Furthermore, the awareness that certain key crops (like date palms, pervasive in Arabia) required male and female components for pollination was common agricultural knowledge long before Islam. Elevating basic agrarian practices to a miraculous botanical revelation overlooks the lived reality of ancient farming societies.
Dehistoricization / Reinterpretation
Apologists pretend that ancient humans didn't know plants required male and female components. They dehistoricize the text by ignoring that ancient agrarian empires (especially date-palm farmers in Arabia) were fully reliant on hand-pollination.