(August 29, 2013 at 9:13 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Some Muslim you are...quoting the Quran without also posting the original Arabic.
Anyway, how are those verses you put up at all a reference to the Big Bang? It's widely considered to be an expansion of a singularity, which "separated" into many parts. In no way was it "split", as your Quran states, or that would insinuate that there are only two parts to the universe. (Because a split usually infers a breaking of one object into two parts.) When thought of in the framework of the ideas of that time (i.e. the limited understanding of simple shepherd folk), this makes perfect sense to them, as they only recognized two parts of their world: the earth on which they walked, and the heavens in which they believed Allah to reside.
Why do you want the Arabic? Do you understand Arabic?
I translated that specific verse myself, so yeah it might not be accurate especially as Arabic isn't my first language, but authorized English translations of the Quran used the words 'seperated, parted, clove them asunder, opened, tore
So thats just a mistake in the translation on my behalf
