Brother, I already agreed with the first part in my above post.
You quoted Surah 20:30. If your interpreting evolution generally as how the world came to be over time, than yes this verse does speak about it. People have said that this is relating to the Big Bang, the phenomena where the whole cosmos was "exploded" ( as being cleft asunder " into being. Also, it is true that we are created from water, we are , in fact 67% water. Now you were right to claim this is a scientific vese, because it is. Now the one you quoated earlier is when my post becomes relevant. As Kashmiri said, it's reffering to the resseruction of mankind. ( Thats what I thought too ) So why would anyone try to cram in another idea in it to make the book more "scientific". Don't think i'm just being picky about you, i've always seen people interpreting their own way. * Insert above post here *The other brothers before my explain it real well.
Here, this is an example of a scientific Quranic verse.
"Modern Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas meet, there is a barrier between them. This barrier divides the two seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density.
[Principles of Oceanography - Davis, pp. 92-93]
For example, Mediterranean Sea water is warm, saline and less dense, compared to Atlantic Ocean water. When Mediterranean Sea water enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1,000 meters with its own warm, saline and less dense characteristics.
The Mediterranean water stabilizes at this depth.
[Principles of Oceanography p. 93]
The Mediterranean Sea water as it enters the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill with its own warm, saline and less dense characteristics, because of the barrier that distinguishes between them. Temperatures are in degrees Celsius (C).
Even in depths (indicated here by darker colors) up to 1,400 meters and at distances ranging from a minus -100 to +2,500 meters, we find that both bodies of water maintain their individual temperatures and salinity.
Although there are large waves, strong currents, and tides in these seas, they do not mix or transgress this barrier.
The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. God said:
He has let free the two seas meeting to gather. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress.
[Holy Quran 55:19-20]
But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of "a forbidding partition" with the barrier.
God said in the Quran:
He is the one who has let free the two bodies of flowing water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition.
[Holy Quran 25:53]
On may ask, why did the Quran mention the partition when speaking about the divider between fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the divider between the two seas?
Modern science has discovered that in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet. It has been discovered that what distinguishes fresh water from salt water in estuaries is a "pycnocline zone with a marked density discontinuity separating the two layers."
[Oceanography p. 242]
This partition (zone of separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water and from the salt water
[Oceanography p. 244 and Introductory Oceanography pp. 300-301]
This information has been discovered only recently using advanced equipment to measure temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc. The human eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea. Likewise the human eye cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds: the fresh water, the salt water, the partition (zone of separation)."
Salam
I think knowledges given by Allah for believers/muslims at the past did not pass through by scientific way. But by self introspection. Because how did people at the past will know the big bang? surely they did not knowing by surface radiation of electromagnetic wave cause by first explotion.
So for people in the present, the scientifical part of the Holy Quran should be taken by 'taking lesson' from comparison among creations/incidents.
my forth posted in this thread could become example, especially about surrah Al-Ghaasyiyah :
Surrah Al Ghaasyiyah 17-20
17: Do they not look at the camel, how they are made?
18: And the sky, how it is raised high?
19: And the mountains, how they are fixed firm?
And the earth how it is spread out?
Maybe we could regard the processing of camel in this ayah 17 as the growth of a baby camel becoming an adult camel. But what about the sky, the mountain, and the earth?
this three ayah show us those shpuld be read as the same process. Because the subject and verb in the ayah 18-20 is there in the ayah 17; A falaa yanzhuruuna'
These ayah mean that we MUST KNOW HOW the process productions of sky, mountain and the earth made by Allah.
And the process of this three creatures just the same with the camel.
How could the production process of sky could be the same with the production of camel? Were we know already how Allah made the sky, mountain and camel? Because He ordered us to understand how did He make them.
there are differences of the process production between camel and mountain. Camel came from the same creature--> its mother. But mountain came from the earth--> different creature.
said about him :" Allahouma teach him al-taaweel" taaweel is tafsir.