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Originally Posted by photon
Going back and finding something that means something different in light of new technology or new social circumstances isn't anything special, you can do that with any text. Passages that don't mean anything new in the new light will continue to not mean anything new, and passages that happen to fit in a new context will do so. But that's like a stopped clock being right, just because you happen to find something doesn't mean that it was written that way.
The earth was known to be round long before the Qur'an was written.
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I never claimed that the Quran was the first text to state the earth is round(ish). I was responding to a poster who claimed that Islam says the earth is flat.
I was initially referring to expansion of the universe, which is stated in the Quran.