The Quran describes the origin of the cosmos:
Imagine a critic who has finally found the argument that demolishes the Quran once and for all. He has read the book’s opening chapter, the seven verses recited by believers in every prayer, and he has discovered a fatal flaw in the sixth verse: Guide us in the straight path. (1:6) The path—al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm—the straight path. And there it is. The error. Because as any physicist will tell you, there are no straight lines in nature. Spacetime itself is curved; a beam of light bends as it passes a massive body. Zoom in on the straightest edge ever manufactured and you will find, at the atomic scale, a jagged coastline of quantum fuzz. Euclid’s straight line is an idealization that exists nowhere in the physical universe. The Quran asks God for something that does not exist. Therefore the Quran is wrong. The argument is airtight. It is also perfectly idiotic, and everyone can feel that it is idiotic, including the critic, which is why no critic has ever actually made it. No one read...