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I used to have a secretary, and one I dictated a letter to her. I read the letter and it had the same words I used. Muhammed dictated the words to the boy, and the boy took them down. Early Muslim sources report that in 610, at about the age of 40, he experienced a vision. He described it to those close to him as a visit from the Angel Gabriel, who commanded him to memorize and recite the verses later collected as the Qur'an. Muhammed memorized the words of Gabriel and dictated them to the boy. Unless we are assuming that either Muhammed forgot or acedentally remembered something wrong, or the boy wrote something down wrong, the Qu'ran has the same message that Gabriel gave Muhammed.
The Qu'ran scholar is probably wrong, but the Qu'ran is as dependable as any other religious text, such as the Bible or the Torah. The reliability of the Qu'ran comes down to faith, not legistics.
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