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The Qur'an mentions the actual shape of the earth in the following verse:

“And the earth, moreover, Hath He made egg shaped.”
Al- Quran 79:30

The Arabic word for egg here is dahaha, which means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur’aan correctly describes the shape of the earth, though the prevalent notion when the Qur’aan was revealed was that the earth is flat. Thus the Qur'an and modern established science are in perfect harmony.[/quote]

It's funny. A quick Google turns up several translations if 79:30, but all of these translations use the word "flat" or variants thereof, not
"egg-shaped."  Try this Muslim source, for example: http://Quran.com/79/30 which says "flat."  Or other sources that look to be Islamic, like www.islamawakened.com/Quran/79/30/default.htm which translates this as, "and the earth, he expanded after that."  I'm wondering how a single word could mean both "flat" and "egg-shaped" and why Muslim translators generally go with "flat" or variants like "extended."[/quote]

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