You spent half of the thread nitpicking the tiniest detail regarding the Quran, you should treat your own scripture with the same level of scrutiny.
I think this discussion has more or less shifted to an origins debate. I think it will have been very much worthwhile if it prompts people to recognise that there are definitely more than one scientifically based view of origins out there.
If people, when they find some claimed proof of evolution or Big Bang cosmology take the time to see if there is an alternate interpretation of the evidence, then apply their own scientific training to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of those perspectives, it will have been a worthwhile conversation to have had
@manama
P.s. in my time following the debate and evidence over these issues, you might picture a mental process of “three in-trays” in my thinking.
There is one where there is evidence strongly suggestive of a biblical creation model, another where evolutionary interpretations and creation interpretations are equally plausible and a third where the evidence is strongly suggestive of an evolutionary model. I studied a degree in it for a reason (apart from enjoyment) , and that was to see what might only go in that third tray.
I can report that trays one and two presently seem to have far more in them.
Another thing is that full information and counter-research sometimes takes a while to come through the pipeline. When this happens, I don’t shred the unhelpful pieces of paper in tray three, I just keep an eye out for more information...
I love the dialogue between John and Reason in Pilgrims Regress:-
“But I must think it is one or the other.'
[Reason]: 'By my father's soul, you must not - until you have some evidence. Can you not remain in doubt?'
[John]: 'I don't know that I have ever tried.'
[Reason]: 'You must learn to, if you are to come far with me. It is not hard to do it. In Eschropolis, indeed, it is impossible, for the people who live there have to give an opinion once a week or once a day, or else Mr. Mammon would soon cut off their food. But out here in the country you can walk all day and all the next day with an unanswered question in your head: you need never speak until you have made up your mind.”
C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress