Nassir H. Sabah
The only mention of bees in the Quran is in verse 68, Chapter 16 (The Bees). In Arabic, the verse consists of 16 words, counting the conjunctive waw as a separate word, and uses 16 letters of the Arabic alphabet. The first part of the verse up to and including the word bees consists of a total of 16 letters. The number of verses in Chapter 16 is 128, a multiple of 16, and the number of words is 2080, a multiple of 16. The number of words from the beginning of the chapter until the word bees is encountered is 992, a multiple of 16, and the number of words including the word bees and till the end of the chapter is 1088, a multiple of 16 (68×16), where 68 is the verse number where bees are mentioned. Female bees (workers) have 16 pairs of chromosomes, whereas male bees (drones) have 16 unpaired chromosomes.
These facts were unknown to the Prophet Muhammad or to any mortal before the 7th century CE, when the Quran was revealed. So how can the Quran be of other than Divine origin?
