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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]

Who has translated that? Do you speak arabic, and really Google is now the authority on this lol. ANYONE can translate anything on Google, now how about you go to a Christian or Atheist Arabic speaker who has no dogs in this fight and ask him/her what that Word means in Arabic? You can get 100 translated Qurans and get 100 different words, that is why muslims recite the Quran in its original form which is ARABIC, the arabic language is so complex that whenever you translate it  a lot is lost in translation[/quote]

These are MUSLIM sources. MUSLIMS did the translations. Go to the links yourself and check. In turn, could you please give a source got "egg-shaped"?[/quote]

I just cliked on the link you gave and it says SPREAD,so where are you getting flat from? egg-shaped is from the arabic itself , the meaning of the word For dahâ means to "shape like an egg", its noun being dahiyah, which the Arabs still use to mean an egg. The same word can also mean spread out, and this is why i said, you have to understand the arabic word. Westerners who have written translation books on english-arabic will give you pages and pages of translation for one arabic word, it is not as simple as some make it seem. You can read this if you want about the egg-shape translation http://turntoislam.com/community/threads/egg.19312/[/quote]

Yes, and the word for "virgin" is close to the word for "white raisin."  There are issues with Arabic, which I studied for a year. However, I guess I'm not going to rely on a proselytizing site (turntoislsm.com, LOL) for an authoritative translation.[/quote]

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