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Qur'an scientific errors occur when a verse, approached from a literalist perspective, states something about reality that's fundamentally flawed. Qur'an scientific errors are external errors (errors in relating the Qur'an to the external world), rather than internal errors.
Qur'an scientific errors suggest against Qur'an scientific foreknowledge and Qur'an inerrancy.
Biology

• Qur'an 76:2:
  • Yusuf Ali: "Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight."
  • Arabic: .إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًا
• Qur'an 86:5-8:
  • Yusuf Ali: "Now let man but think from what he is created! He is created from a drop emitted - Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs: Surely (Allah) is able to bring him back (to life)!"
  • Arabic: .إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِۦ لَقَادِرٌ .يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ. خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٍ دَافِقٍ. فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ

Here, the assertion is made that semen comes from between the backbone and the ribs. This is false for obvious reasons.
Astronomy

Location of the moon

The Qur'an is explicit about where the stars are:

• "Then He ordained them seven heavens in two Days and inspired in each heaven its mandate; and We decked the nether heaven with lamps, and rendered it inviolable. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Knower," (Qur'an 41:12).
• "Who hath created seven heavens in harmony [commonly translated as "in layers"]. Thou (Muhammad) canst see no fault in the Beneficent One's creation; then look again: Canst thou see any rifts ? Then look again and yet again, thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim. And verily We have beautified the world's heaven [the heaven closest to the Earth] with lamps [also known as "stars"], and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame," (Qur'an 67:3-5).

The Qur'an further explains where the moon is:

• "See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony, And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp ?" (Qur'an 71:15-16).

Since the lowest heaven contains the stars, this is a problem. The moon is, at minimum, the same distance from earth as the stars are; at worst, the moon is farther from Earth than the stars. Either way, this is a wildly incorrect statement.

Geology

Flat earth


The Earth's not flat. The Qur'an both states and strongly implies that it is.^[1]
"Spread out"

The Qur'an frequently describes the earth as "spread out", often comparing it to a "carpet". Unless you have some kind of freaky 3D carpet, that's pretty flat.

• "And the earth have We spread out, and placed therein firm hills, and caused each seemly thing to grow therein," (Qur'an 15:19).
• "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." (Qur'an 20:53, Yusuf Ali).
• "(Yea, the same that) has made for you the earth (like a carpet) spread out, and has made for you roads (and channels) therein, in order that ye may find guidance (on the way);" (Qur'an 43:10, Yusuf Ali).
• "And the earth — We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs)" (Qur'an 50:7, Yusuf Ali).
• "And the earth have We laid out, how gracious is the Spreader (thereof)!" (Qur'an 51:48).
• "And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)," (Qur'an 71:19, Yusuf Ali).
• "Have We not made the earth an expanse, And the high hills bulwarks?" (Qur'an 78:7).
• "And after that He spread the earth, And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof, And He made fast the hills, A provision for you and for your cattle," (Qur'an 79:30-33).
• "And the earth, how it is spread?" (Qur'an 88:20).
• "And the earth and Him Who spread it, And a soul and Him Who perfected it And inspired it (with conscience of) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it," (Qur'an 91:6-8).

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