QUOTE (Zephir+Jul 6 2006, 07:50 PM)
Try to motivate us for reading.... Is Koran able to predict something new?
If this is the 18th century, I will tell you that Quran WILL predict a lot of science that is in it.
In other words, what I mean is that what modern science has proven in the last century or so was already found in the Quran that is the only book in mankind's history with zero change. Before I go on, I would like to state that the Quran is said to be the book for all of mankind. Therefore, it should be compatible with how previous generations lived, and also with today's technological and science-led world.
Quran is not a book of science, but about SIGNS, but over 1000 verses (signs) speak about science.
To start off, with very very basic knowledge, science has theorized that the universe came into existence with the phenomenon called the Big Bang. Alhamdulillah, this was given in a nutshell in the glorious Quran in Surah Anbiya, Chp 21, verse 30: "Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder?"
2) Again in Chp 21, verse 33: "It is Allah who has created the night and the day, the Sun and the Moon, each one travelling with its own motion." Alhamdulillah, we know now that it takes the sun approx. 25 days to complete its rotation.
3) Hubble said that universe is expanding, in Holy Quran, chp 51, verse 47: "AND IT IS We who have built the universe with power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it". The Arabic word musi'una is called "vastness of space" >> "expanding"
4) The Holy Quran has also described the water cycle in great detail: Chp 86, Verse 11, and in (Chp:Ver): 24:43, 30:48, 39:21, 23:18, 30:24, 15:22, 7:57, 13:17, 25:49 and many others.
5) in field of Geology, we know that deeper layers of Earth are hot and cannot sustain life, and that the upper-most layer (the crust) could shake. Quran says in CHp 78, verse 6-7: "We have made the Earth as an expanse; and the mountains as pegs." Today we have come to know, that moutains has got deep roots, and the part on top that we see is very small (much like a glacier) and much of it is within the Earth...this explanation is exactly like how pegs (or stakes) are, which are driven to the Earth as markings or for support are only a small portion of them are above the ground.
Quran further says in chp 88, verse 19 and in chp 79, verse 32: "And we have made mountain standing firm on the Earth"...today after modern geology has advanced, by the theory of plate tectonics, the geologists today do say that mountains give stability. Not all geologists, but most of them.
In the Quran, it already states, that mountains give stability. Nowhere does is it state that they prevent earthquakes, because that is simply not true.
6) Chp 55, verse 19-20: He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet:; between them is a barrier which they may not transgress. What does the Quran mean? We know there is sweet water and salt water, but what is it about not mixing? The scienitific point to note here is that when one types of water goes into the other, it loses it constituents and gets homogenized before it flows. So there is a slanting area, which Quran refers to it by the unseen barrier. People back in that time did not about sweet and salt water, but no one knew that there is an unseen barrier. It is proven recently, which is another reason that Quran is in fact the book of Almighty Allah.
I could write an essay on scientific facts in Quran that are now proven recently.
As for your question, there are many things in Quran that we do not know of. One may say they are neither true nor false because we do not know of them. For example, if you asked me how a child looks like inside woman's womb about four decades ago, I would not be able to answer it. In the Quran it says that when man is born inside woman's womb, it looks like a leech. No one could know that until now with advanced technology, which is confirmed by Professor Keith L. Moore from University of Toronto that a human in fact looks like a leech when inside woman's womb.
Einstein said himself, "Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind."
I would like to end with two verses from the Quran, chp 2, verse 79: "Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say this is from Allah, to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for what they earn."
Chp 17, verse 81: And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish."
I am not a scholar, but this is what I could offer. I still try to seek knowledge. If you have questions, I will try my best to answer them.
Wa aakhiru da'awani walhamdulillahi rabbil 'alamin.