The deeper layers of the earth are very hot, fluid and hostile to any form of life. The earth s crust is a solidified shell on which we can live. The Quran rightly refers to it like a carpet spread out, so that we can travel along its roads and paths. Not a single verse of the Quran says that the earth is flat. The Quran only compares the earth s crust with a carpet.
Some people seem to think that carpet can only be put on an absolute flat surface.
It is possible to spread a carpet on a large sphere such as the earth. It can easily be demonstrated by taking a huge model of the earth s globe covering it with a carpet. Carpet is generally put on a surface, which is not very comfortable to walk on. The Quran describes the earth crust as a carpet, without which human beings would not be able to survive because of the hot, fluid and hostile environment beneath it. The Quran is thus not only logical, it is mentioning a scientific fact that was discovered by geologists centuries later.