You cannot translate it like it is in order LOL. This is why I need to explain it further
This is the basic that is similar with Bigbang theory that Earth and Heaven is one entity in the beginning.
Quran, Al Anbiya verse 30
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
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OK then I will try to explain that the other verses show similar essence, but God look like try to make it look easy to for people living in 7 Centuries to understand :
First and second verses are information to elicit readers, it is not necessarily interpreted as if earth and even mountains are made earlier than Heaven (Sky and other universe) LOL. It is not wrong, the statements are both true. It can also mean Earth is made first in concept, while the physical formation is together with Heaven (Universe).
41:9 “Say (O Muhammad, unto the idolaters): Disbelieve ye verily in Him Who created the earth in two Days, and ascribe ye unto Him rivals? He (and none else) is the Lord of the Worlds.”
41:10 “He placed therein firm hills rising above it, and blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for (all) who ask;”
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Later God explain further....explain further and it should not be interpreted as the next stage of creation, Why? It is because the redaction of the verse reveals it......
41:11 “Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth: Come both of you, willingly or unwillingly. They said: We come, obedient.”
Look on this one :
“Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth
Look this redaction shows Earth is part of Heaven in its early stage of formation.
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It is important to say it like this in order not to make people ( who dont understand the bigbang concept) confuse that later can jeopardize their belief in Islam.
While this verse I believe is stated later, after Muslim gets ticker fait since this fact revelation if it is stated to early will make people hard to accept Islam despite it is the truth
Quran, Al Anbiya verse 30
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
Explaining in stages is one of the method used by God to teach human, it is for instant happening when God in early period of Islam allow Muslim to drink Alcohol but in later stage it is forbidden with other verse.
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About the word Days
Once again, Days in these Verse should not be considered as Days as in 24 hours as that is Day in Earth perspective where it is based on Earth rotation. It is better stated as stages, but Quran try to make the definition of the period easy to understand by people living in 7 centuries.
First of all ,all the faith lunatics from every religion invest most of their time and resources on how to distort, twist, and “
re-interpret” the data ,that's how they try to divert public scrutiny for their business like institution.You are doing something similar here
You cannot translate it like it is in order LOL. This is why I need to explain it further
This is the basic that is similar with Bigbang theory that Earth and Heaven is one entity in the beginning.
Quran, Al Anbiya verse 30
Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and then We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
It talked about such non-existent things as “the Heaven”, which supposedly consists of “seven layers, one on top of the other”, whereas such notions are nonsensical in modern science.
God could have chosen to mention any of
thousands of facts (data) that we now know in astronomy. And, even a mere human can find ways to say things so that they both sound “innocent” to the ancient listener, and astonishing to us today. Why did the author— choose to speak only about things that were known by preacher? and even known in the wrong way (“seven heavens”, Moon farther than stars)?
21:32 “And We have made the heaven a guarded
canopy and (yet) they turn aside from its signs.”
So,the heaven is a
canopy, which means a
roof over the heads of people. You, of course, know today that there is nothing like a roof over your head. But they back then didn’t know.
31:10 “He created the heavens without any pillars that ye can see;”
If God knew that the Earth is a sphere, and that its atmosphere (responsible for the illusion of “heaven”) surrounds the globe and is held around it by gravity, why would he boast that there are no visible
pillars that support it? Pillars are used only to support ceilings.
79:27 “Are you the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?
79:28 He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
79:29 And
He made dark the night thereof, and
He brought forth the morning thereof.
79:30 And
after that He spread the earth.”
So he “raises” the canopy of the heaven (what sense does this really make if by “heaven” to create night and day . Subsequently, god spreads the Earth. (And note please that if you want to create a sphere you don’t
spread it, which is what you do if you create a flat, planar surface.) .
It can also mean Earth is made first in concept, while the physical formation is together with Heaven (Universe).
Wow ,this is genius,so god made earth as a prototype but didn't exactly manufactured it but went back and made "heaven"the canopy according to the book ,and then returned to create the earth all done within two days !!
Ok ,playing along,
In verse
41:10 it's confirmed that the finishing-up of the creation of the Earth took some time, as it took a total of four days to adorn the Earth with mountains, etc. So, let’s say that in the first four days of creation was concerned with the Earth,
no matter what other things he might be doing at the same time. That’s an unassailable conclusion from
41:9–10 .
Verse
41:11 Translators Pickthal and Shakir say “
Then He turned to the heaven”, whereas Yusuf Ali says “
Moreover He...” regardless, of whether it's “then” or “moreover”,
the Earth was the first object that was created. If the meaning is “then”, then of course earth was created in 4 days and
then turned to the heaven. But even if the meaning is “moreover”, still it cannot be that god created the heaven before the Earth, because in
41:11 he speaks to the heaven “when it was smoke”, i.e.,
unformed yet. God converts the unformed heaven into a formed structure of seven heavens in
41:12, in the next two days.
I'll refrain from complaining about the arithmetic, which sums up to 2+4+2=8 days,contrary to the 6 days of creation mentioned in verse 7:54 mentions Your Guardian-Lord created the heavens and the earth in six days.