Religions teach backward ideas - Yes & No

[Darwinian]

I can't remeber who, someone will enlighten me, but a greek scientist PROVED the Earth was a sphere by doing experiments with rods and shadows and even predicted the size of the planet to a stagering degree of accuracy.

The fact that they were mentioned in the Qur'an 1000 years or so after they were well documented simply shows that the Qur'an, Bible etc. did not contain any mystical facts that were not known about at the time.