Explanation needed

[letsnot]

the earth is neither flat nor egg-shaped, since it's a sphere.

It's approximates an oblate spheroid to be precise.

It's still not an egg.

[truthBtold]

It's approximates an oblate spheroid to be precise.

It's still not an egg.

But did the chicken come before the egg?? Ahhhhhh

[lordofgemini]

I am quite interested where in the Quran it says earth is flat?

Quran 15:19
"And the earth we have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things due in balance."

I'm an ex Muslim who learned the Quran in arabic. Now I know the people you're arguing with might say the Quran says this in 79:30
"He made the earth egg-shaped."

They might say that Allah made the earth look flat to us when it's really egg-shaped. The counterargument to that would obviously be that the earth is neither flat nor egg-shaped, since it's a sphere.

Edit: 15:19 also points out that the Earth is immovable.

First of all the word dahaha means spread, and it can also be interpretated as an egg, ostrich egg that is.

70:19
Sahih International
And after that He spread the earth.
Muhsin Khan
And after that He spread the earth;
Pickthall
And after that He spread the earth,
Yusuf Ali
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
Shakir
And the earth, He expanded it after that.

21:33 "He it is who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; All orbs travel along swiftly in their celestial spheres"


As for 15:19
"And the earth-- We have spread it forth and made in it firm mountains and caused to grow in it of every suitable thing."

"We placed firmly embedded mountains on the earth, so it would not move under them… "(Qur'an, 21:31)

“Have We not made the earth a resting place? And the mountains as stakes/pegs (awtadan)” surah naba verse 6-7

I hope I don't need to explain these verses.

[Jackalope]

It approximates an oblate spheroid to be precise.

It's still not an egg.

Of course it isn't - but it's a little silly to correct someone with something that is itself incorrect.