The Qur'an is not the word of God, it contains too many scientific mistakes.

It says Naggar is an earth science professor in the link. That's your interpretation. It is well known that people have subjectivity that influences the way they interpret holy books. That's how one gets differences in opinion. It was relevant because it was information that dealt with those particular verses. The other information is also relevant since we are debating about the Qur'an in relation to science. I don't know if you noticed, but all the links were from one site. It's the site I use to better understand things because I am not a native speaker. A lot is lost in the translations; thus, I cannot do raw interpretations. Also, is the Arabic in the Qur'an the same as the Arabic that is spoken today? Do Arabic speakers not have trouble interpreting the Qur'an on their own? I know someone who speaks Arabic and has told me that she has trouble interpreting. She does not claim she has the qualifications to make interpretations. Since we are talking about the Qur'an, using Islamic sites to explain verses is a valid method in debating this topic. It's better to get a scholar's interpretation than to get an interpretation from a layman like me. "Another aspect that I already clarified that I will take for argument sake that day means a long period of time, lets say a billion years or whatever. Is that ok? I have no intentions on debating the word days in Arabic or how long does it mean." You clarified that for argument's sake according to what you said in the first round. I clarified to further explain. If you didn't want to debate about the length, then you never should have brought the length of time up in the first place. Since length was brought up in your first round, it's fair game. Since I already explained this portion in the first round, I'll move on to the order you speak of. You provided your interpretation of the verses. I will provide an explanation as well but from another source. "..it would be wrong to interpret 'then He turned to the heaven' to mean that first He created the earth, then set mountains in it, then arranged blessings and provisions of food in it, and then, at the end, He turned towards the creation of the universe. This misunderstanding is removed by the following sentence: 'He said to it and the earth: Come both of you, willingly or by compulsion. They said: We have come willingly.' This makes it clear that in this verse and in the following verses, mention is being made of the time when there was neither the earth nor the heaven, but the creation of the universe was being started. Only the word thumma (then) cannot be made the argument to say that the earth had been created before the heavens. There are several instances of this in the Quran that the word thumma is not necessarily used to show the chronological order but it is also used for the order of Presentation." http://www.islamicstudies.info...The link, of course, provides a fuller explanation. The part I included seems sufficient in explaining the argument of order that you made for the first example.______________________________________________________________________________________On to the second example. As I mentioned before, Karam says "The word 'zawgyne' is consistently translated into the English language as 'pairs.' In scientific literature its meaning is extended to incorporate such concepts as 'duality", 'complementarity', 'opposites', 'inverses' and several other concepts reflecting conjugate and/or reciprocal properties."Plants are asexual as well but have both male and female reproductive systems. Again, pairs doesn't just apply to reproductive concepts. It can have a much broader definition. Since pairs can also mean complementarity, meat and the fork used to eat it can very well be used to fit the meaning of pairs. You mentioned the sharks and "virgin birth". I'll mention the Virgin Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus (pbuh). Let me say again that pairs is not just about reproduction. The broad definition of pairs literally allows for everything to come in pairs. ____________________________________________________________________________Another thing I want to note is concerning language.When someone says "Everything in my life is messed up," does that mean everything in their life is messed up or does it mean that there are numerous things in this person's life that are not going well? I would say the meaning fits the latter. The person obviously means many things in their life are messed up even when using the term everything. This is just something to think about, but I am not using it in relation to the verse since I am not a scholar.