Firstly, Plato was well established a long time, almost 1000 years, before Islam.
Professor Kroner, sadly, is clearly in the wrong here. He is reading way too much into an ambiguous fairly tale. I take it he hasn't read things like this in the Qu'ran
The sun setting in murky water.
I am waiting for response about plato.
u cant judge anyone because there are many things in science which comes with myths and personal opinion. and if u ask about the universe present there will be an exact answer but u are talking about the beginning of universe and there are many different opinion regard it. i think its same as evaluation. where u cant get a exact reply.so u cant comment on professor Koner is clearly wrong.
but there are things in science proved as facts such as
embryology-
http://www.islamology.org/Overview/Science/Embroyology.htm
Keith L. Moore is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy (department of surgery), former Chair of anatomy and associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has also worked at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is most known for his textbooks on the subjects of anatomy and human embryology.
"It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Quran about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger .u can watch his video.
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http://www.scienceislam.com/scientists_quran.php)
water cycle-
http://jesussecondcoming.blogspot.com/2009/01/water-cycle-in-quran.html
ocenology- barrier bitween sweet and bitter water
http://www.geocities.com/aahem187/ocenology.htm
like this there are many things proved correct in quran.and no single mistake.
so as u said there were people that time with differnt opinions regard all these issues but how prophet mentioned all which only is accurate.
its mentioned in bible that the world is flat but its mentioned in quran that
Earth is geo-spherical in shape
The Quran mentions the actual shape of the earth in the following verse: “And we have made the earth egg shaped”. [Al-Quran 79:30]
The Arabic word Dahaha means egg shaped. It also means an expanse. Dahaha is derived from Duhiya which specifically refers to the egg of an ostrich which is geo-spherical in shape, exactly like the shape of the earth.
Thus the Quran and modern established science are in perfect harmony.
Mountains
In geology, modern science has recently discovered the phenomenon of folding which formed the mountain ranges. The earth's crust is like a solid shell, while the deeper layers are hot and fluid, and thus inhospitable to any form of life. It has also been discovered that the stability of mountains is linked to the phenomenon of folding. The process of mountain formation by folding drove the earth's crust down into the lower layers and provided foundations for the mountains.
Let us now compare modern ideas with one verse among many in the Qur'an that deals with this subject. It is taken from chapter an-Naba':
"Have We not made the earth an expanse and the mountains stakes?"
Qur'an, 78:6-7
Stakes ( awtaad ), which are driven into the ground like those used to anchor a tent, are the deep foundations of geological folds.
Here, as in the case of all the other topics presented, the objective observer cannot fail to notice the absence of any contradiction to modern knowledge.
THE THING THAT WE SHOULD BELIEVE OF EXISTENCE OF GOD IS BECAUSE PROPHET WAS AN ILLITERATE PERSON. SO THERE IS NO WAY HE MADE A QURAN ON HIS OWN WITHOUT A SINGLE MISTAKE.
if u want to get some idea of this u can watch one dialogue between dr william campbel and zakir naik.even u dont believe it will be interesting for u to watch.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=william+campbell&emb=0#
Francis Bacon, the famous philosopher, has rightly said that a little knowledge of science makes man an atheist, but an in-depth study of science makes him a believer in God. Scientists today are eliminating models of God, but they are not eliminating God. If you translate this into Arabic, it is La illaha illal la, There is no god, (god with a small ‘g’ that is fake god) but God (with a capital ‘G’).