How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.

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And to make it worse for the OP, the same verse talks about the the sun running its course for a specified time (in the sky during the daytime, that is). Not at all scientific.

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http://www.universetoday.com/60174/does-the-sun-move/

Dude the sun has a course, along with the whole solar system, orbiting the center of the milky way.

Check this verse which told people about it 1400 years ago before NASA :

( 37 ) And a sign for them is the night. We remove from it [the light of] day, so they are [left] in darkness.
( 38 ) And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
( 39 ) And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.
( 40 ) It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming. Page 442.

http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=eisa...rans=en_sh

About the sun's orbit and how the quran spoke of it accurately ; that's another topic : )

I think a better question to ask, since you're trying to make out this verse is in keeping with science and is accurate, is where and what is the sun's stopping point?

Or perhaps we could just let Muhammed tell us instead?

Narrated Abu Dhar:
The Prophet (ﷺ) asked me at sunset, "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: "And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All- Knowing." (36.38)

http://sunnah.com/bukhari/59

It's no wonder you didn't want to open this can of worms and would like to save this topic for another time...