Scientific Evidence in the Quran
We all hear this a lot. "There are scientific facts and predictions in the Quran that Muhammed could not have known at the time".
The thing is, they all seem vague and more so like wishful thinking more than straight forward facts. It's like trying to play doors and rooms, where the answers to solve the puzzle are indirect and vague, but the thing is, in real life, there is no red light telling you if your interpretation is true, and seems not cuz it's very much just wishful thinking and bending facts.
Some of these points are:
_The Quran speaking about Fetus development:
>Muslims say the Quran specifies accurately how the fetus forms. Actually, lots of what it says is either very vague (for example it describing 4 stages each with a word) and takes quite the stretch to fit as a scientific fact. You must be familiar with how far they are streched. If not, one of these stages is mudgha, which means a bitesize piece of flesh. Muslims say that a certain point the fetus's spinal cord shows up and looks like bite mark, so vwala! Scientific miracle. Also, these descriptions, although most muslims don't like googling things to make sure of a crucial piece of info, already existed within the ancient greek science. Finally, half of the descriptions of this process in the Quran (and ancient greek embryology) are very far from the truth. For example, Bones don't form first then wait for the flesh to cover them (forming on top of the bone). They form simultaneously. Although this info is very easily accesible to everyone through one google search, muslims i talk too (and most others) prefer to say things like "no bones form then meat after them, not simultaneously". I just tell them to do a simple google search, then the typical BS comenses like "the website you enterred to read this is anti-islam and lying" or "I saw my baby on echo, so don't teach me about embryology".
_The Quran saying "I swear by the stars and their places" or "the earth and heavens were together than split apart". They say this is supposed to talk about expansion and the big bang.
The weird thing is, this is a very big stretch of an interpretation of a sentence like these. Looks more like playing a crazy puzzle game than actual objective interpretation. These are also ad hoc bcz it's funny how they completely forget that big bang and expansion, or even basic earth science, almost completely contradicts the description of the universe's formation and evolution in the Quran. Accepting Big bang and expansion would cantradict other parts of the Quran, unless of course, the muslim wants to be even more creative and fit "created earth and put rivers on it and grape trees and then placed humans on it ..." into the science of universe, earth, and life evolution and formation, which would prove quite impossible.
These are just some, and please note that I'm not literally quoting here.
So, what do you guys think? How can ppl be so self deceiving and convince themselves that these things are completely compatible, and even clearly miraculous, without acknowledging any doubt? I mean, I understand how cuz i was a muslim, and what i used to do was believe in "proofs" and make excuses. Especially when hearing an 'evidence', I would stop there and not work on getting more info, which in most cases showes that what you knew as proof has holes in it you didn't know. This is a kind of fallacy.
