How literally should we take the Qur'an ?

[pocaracas]

That's a fact. Read the verse, "And We created from water every living thing" (21:30) for example. According to the biological classification known as the two-domain system, all living organisms are either:

..... living organisms are largely made of water.

This fact couldn't have been known by anyone in the prophet PBUH's time, and it could have been easily falsified. There is nothing left to say, this verse is a miracle.

"We created from water every living thing" = every living thing is largely water

The only miracle is why you have such low standards to believe in stupid shit, any why you have such a strong drive to reconcile this shit with what we know to be true.

Because he thinks that, back then, this was not known to humanity, unless it was handed down from a higher power.
As if populations didn't gather around bodies of water for a reason during the previous thousands of years. As if ancient Greeks didn't already postulate that water was key to life.

'water is the source of all life'
attributed to Thales of Miletus (624-546 BC)