I have no doubt that you can find a Muslim scholar who’ll explain to you how the verse “…when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring” can be interpreted as scientifically accurate...
umm...well the Islamists will have to explain THAT and many other scientific inconsistencies as well. (not to mention historical. for example, they say that Jesus was never actually crucified...but dozens of respected *secular* historians, outside the Bible all record it.)
Take, for example, the Quran’s highly controversial statement that human beings are formed from a clot of blood. “Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (foetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh” (23:14).
This is hardly a scientific description of embryonic development. It ignores to mention the female egg (the second and equally important half) and the process of fertilization when egg and sperm unite to form one new cell.
* The Qur’an teaches that there are seven heavens one above the other [67:3, 71:15], and that the stars are in the lower heaven [67:5, 37:6, 41:12], but the moon is depicted as being in/inside the seven heavens [71:16], even though in reality the stars are much further away from the earth than the moon.
* In Sura 27:18-19 Solomon overhears a “conversation of ants”.
Is this possible based on our knowledge about the mode and complexity of ant communication?
** Found the following information from alwaysbready.com, if you want to read more about the Qu’ran’s scientific and historical inconsistencies please go to:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/index.html