Scientific Errors in the Quran: Difference between revisions

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{{Quote|{{Quran|51|48}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) the Spreaders!}}
{{Quote|{{Quran|51|48}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) the Spreaders!}}


====Earth is Like a Carpet====
====Earth is a Bed====


The earth is described like a carpet, completely flat and spread out on the ground and not rolled up for storage.  
The earth is described like a bed (or carpet in Yusuf Ali's translation). Such a word suggests something completely flat and spread out on the ground and not rolled up for storage. The same Arabic word is used in the 3 verses below.  


{{Quote|{{Quran|20|53}}|
{{Quote|{{Quran|20|53}}|
He Who has, made for you '''the earth like a carpet spread out'''; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels); }}
Who hath appointed the earth '''as a bed''' and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation}}


{{Quote|{{Quran|43|10}}|
{{Quote|{{Quran|43|10}}|
He Who has, made for you '''the earth like a carpet spread out'''; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels); and has sent down water from the sky." With it have We produced diverse pairs of plants each separate from the others. }}
[The one] who has made for you the earth '''a bed''' and made for you upon it roads that you might be guided}}
 
Sometimes the word expanse is translated as bed in this verse too (it is the same Arabic word as the other two verses above).
 
{{Quote|{{Quran|78|6}}|Have We not made the earth '''an expanse'''}}
 
The same root word is used as a verb at the end of 51.48
 
{{Quote|{{Quran|78|6}}|And the earth, We have spread it; how excellent (are) '''the Spreaders!'''}}


====Earth is a Wide Plain====
====Earth is a Wide Plain====
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