Can someone explain this ?

[Laza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Vn3fT7Z8s

I was arguing with my friend over Islam, and he showed me this video, can someone explain this , i think that this is probably wrong translation of the original texts right ?

[Angrboda]

First there was a nebula? I didn't listen past that point. Major fail on what science says about the origin of the universe.

[Minimalist]

What makes that guy an expert? The hat?

[Laza]

I know he got that one wrong, but what about the things that he says are written in the quran, after that ?

[downbeatplumb]

I can explain it.

1:He is comparing science with poetic, imprecise language which you can make mean anything.

2:Ancient greeks knew the earth was spherical and worked out its size.

The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to ancient Greek philosophy from around the 6th century BC,[1] but remained a matter of philosophical speculation until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy established the spherical shape of the earth as a physical given. The Hellenistic paradigm was gradually adopted throughout the Old World during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages