Page 185 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Harun Yahya

However, what is important is that this feature of fingerprints was
only discovered in the late 19th century. Before then, people regarded
fingerprints as ordinary curves without any specific importance or
meaning. However in the Qur'an, Allah points to the fingertips, which
did not attract anyone's attention at that time, and calls our attention to
their importance. This importance has only been fully understood in
our day.
The validity of the technique to establish
identity by means of fingerprints (AFS-
Applicant Fingerprint System) has been
confirmed by various police organisations
over the last 25 years and is a legally
approved method. No technology of identi-
ty verification in our time gives such effec-
tive results as fingerprints. Using finger-
prints to establish identity has been used
in legal processes for the last 100 years
and possesses international acceptance.
("What is a Fingerprint?," www.ridgesand-
furrows.homestead.com/fingerprint.html.)

In his book Fingerprint Techniques Andre
A. Moenssens analyses the way that each
individual has a unique set of fingerprints:
"... no two fingerprints from different digits
have ever been found to match exactly."
(Andre A. Moenssens, "Is Fingerprint
Identification a 'Science'?," www.forensic-
evidence.com/site/ID/ID00004_2.html#ID1.)

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