The Qur'an and Science

If we carefully study the Qur'an, we would come to realize that the Qur'an not only informs us of the lawful and unlawful things, it also contains many verses regarding the natural world and science.

It contains such verses, which science has discovered only recently. After all, it is from the lord of the universe, and just these verses have converted many non-believers into believers. Below, a few are mentioned:

1) The Qur'an states - "He is the originator of the heavens and the earth". From this verse, we can understand that before Allah (God) created anything, there was nothing besides him, and this is what exactly science says. They say that the world was created from nothingness, except the fact that they deny that God created the world, but instead, it was the 'big bang'. But now, they have come to realize that even this is not true.
2) Another verse in the Qur'an states - "We made the sky a preserved and protected roof, yet still they turn away". From this verse, we come to know that the sky above has been created to protect us. Science tells us that the atmosphere which surrounds the earth destroys many meteors, big and small as they approach the earth. The atmosphere also protects the earth, humans and animals from harmful rays by filtering them, as they come from the sun. It also protects the earth from the minus 270 degrees Celsius space temperature.
3) Allah says - "It is he who sends down water in due measure from the sky by which we bring a dead land back to life". From this verse, we learn that the amount of water which Allah sends down to the earth in an exact amount. From recent research, it has been discovered that in one second approximately, 16 million tons of water evaporates from the earth, which is equal to 505 trillion tons of water in one year, and the figure is the exact amount of rain which falls on the earth each year! This means that water continuously circulates in a balanced cycle, in a 'measure'.
4) Allah says - "He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break". From this verse, it is understood that the water of two different areas do not mix together. This fact has only been discovered recently by oceanographers. They say that because of the physical force called 'surface tension', the water of neighbouring seas do not mix.
5) Allah says - "He creates you stage by stage in your mother's womb in a threefold darkness". From this verse, it can be concluded that the formation ofthe baby in the mother's womb takes place in three main stages. This fact has been discovered by modern biology. I quote from a fundamental reference text book in the field of embryology, "The life in the uterus has three stages: pre-cmbryonic; first two and a half weeks, embryonic; until the end ofthe eighth week, and fetal; from the eighth week to labor".
(Peter L. William, Basic Human Embryology, 3rd Edition, 1984,pg64)