Re: Better late than never @MattBryant
I did say "I would suggest you do some basic research from credible sources before you use your opinion as fact."
The key term to note here is "credible sources".
Credible sources include: the Quran itself (available in a wide variety of languages with accompanying transliteration/commentries), bookshops/libraries with credible authors, imams/local mosques, etc.
Unfortunately many people in the UK (and around the world) choose to accept what they heard in their local pub as a source of knowledge on Islam or anti islamic websites who quote selective parts of verses out of the wider context or mistranslate words. Both sources will normally point at actions of a person or group of people (or in the vast majority of cases at traditions which are actually frowned upon in Islam) and say "look that is Islam", when in actual fact they represent noone but themselves. It's important to remember that everyone interpret things in their own way.
Credible sources also do not include Wikipedia, widely accepted by academics before I'm misquoted on this.
@Titus Technophobe :To answer your point more directly, if you want objective proof why don't you check when the said scientific discovery was made and compare it to when it was written in the Quran and then check to see it was actually written in the Quran. Use an actual Quran for this translated from a good source.
@Matt Bryant: Thank you for proving my point by quoting me out of context several times. "People" did not mean Islamic scholars, it meant the anti Islamic websites/preachers who spread these untruths, you interpreted my point incorrectly. The link you posted for your second point on "real science reading" actually comes down to a question of maths, calculating the age of the earth. If you choose to believe a theory which has an error range of 500 million years so be it, also don't forget to mention there are arguments against the science used in the Wikipedia article you linked. I followed the third sentence you quoted with "I think you'll find alcohol is prohibited as an intoxicant due to the effects on the body", i.e. it was not to "sober up arabs" but in fact due to the harm it has on the human body. Again, feel free to selectively read and good try at misquoting me. The revelation came after he was questioned about it, as did many revelations. You then say all the proofs have been shown to be pinched, I think you'll find many people who try to discredit science in Islam focus around wordings, trying to make verses ambigious/random, etc. Also quoting an award which itself has had many contraversies which has only been around for just over a century to make your point that Islam stifles science isn't a good way, seeing as Islam is over 1400 years old. To finish I wasn't being obstuse, I was being brief, but you have proven my point well.
Why rely on people as too often people's opinions are turned into fact and people too easily jump to conclusions.
That is all I have to say on the matter and please don't misquote me as it makes you look silly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
