If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Quran?
Yes, it is the same across them all. Now, many fundamentalist believers of the religions will tell you that there are no contradictions with science, but the Qur’an has the sun setting in a muddy spring at the edge of the earth and sperm produced in the abdomen. The Bible classifies bats as birds, has the Sun created after the plants that require it for photosythesis, etc. The same is true for many religious texts. The two it matters for the most are the Bible (including the Torah) and the Qur’an, as these texts are claimed to be the revealed word of the one and only, all-powerful, all-knowing Deity. Scientific inaccuracies, therefore, are a direct contradiction to the claim of being the revealed word of such a deity.
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