Did humanity ignore this as it was never mentioned?

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I really wish more humans of ALL religions worldwide would understand that they all do the same thing in adapting horrible tactics. Sorry Atlass, this is the same bad argument I have seen from Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists. When you cant get away with simply quoting the hero/writing you try to cherry pick the writing to retrofit modern science to point to your club.

No, for all of antiquity worldwide, that was then, this is now. NOBODY, not Buddhists, not Hindus, not Jews, not Muslims not Christians, NOBODY, back then had any modern understanding of modern scientific data. 

We also have Christians still here now on this website who also try to retrofit modern science to point to the bible. It does not work when anybody tries this.

It's not cherry picking for one reason Brian: It is foretold in the Quran as arguments to face up humanity with.

While many Muslims resorted to Hadiths and all; the source book had more of similar arguments that I think many Muslims did choose to ignore.
The scientific method goes well with me for a simple reason: it tells about proving stuff; whenever it pinpoints a verse I know I have a problem in my faith. It didn't until now.

It should prove the Quran wrong by now. But it didn't. It made it stronger in my view

You're wrong on you not cherry picking stuff. You're both cherry picking and misinterpreting stuff. Not alone are you pointing to a few vague and ambiguously worded passages, you're twisting and turning them in a vain attempt to make them "look scientific". Every holy book has passages like this, and you discount all others, why does your belief in islam give the equally ignorant qu'ran a free pass?

Oh and you're also wrong on the scientific method, it's not a way of proving what's right but, more importantly and much better for knowledge, disproving what's wrong.