Earth like a Carpet?

[katieMatt]

Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the circumference of the Earth to an astonishing degree of accuracy in 240bce.

About 850 years before the quaran was written.

So any scientific "discoveries" the quaran might lay claim to can be safely ignored.

Sure, but I think the Muslims' claim for a miracle here refers to the earth's crust - which is supposed to play the role of a carpet that someone spreads out to protect us from the hot, fluid inside of the earth. Like a carpet that you put on a rough surface to make it more comfortable to walk and to sit on. That's the point I think.

But you're right, even if the Quran stated that the earth's spherical shape was mentioned in it that would be no argument at all for the Greeks were ways earlier!