In one of the thread about Hazrat Isa (as), from what I can understand (and please correct me if I understood it wrong) it was argued that as the verse 47/48 of Surah Al-Imran says:
[3:47/48] She said, 'My Lord, how shall I have a son, when no man has touched me? He said, ‘Such is the way of Allah. He creates what He pleases. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is;’
… so Hazrat Isa (as) birth was like a miracle where Allah said ‘Be’ and Hazrat Maryam had a baby. So trying to explain it in any scientific terms will be going against this verse that clearly states it happened just like that i.e. ‘BE’. It makes me wanna say then why even go through the trouble of creating a miracle that others can question, why not just make Hazrat Isa (as) ‘BE’ like a grown man out of no where, as Hazrat Adam (as) is believed to be. But that’s a little out of scope of this thread.
Anyway, so being intrigued by this argument I checked my handy dandy tafseer and it had mentioned other places where such claims of " ‘Be’ and it is" are made in Quran. Allah bless all those who compiled the tafaseer, they indeed put a lot of work into it. Following is another place where it is claimed in reference to life and death.
[40:68/69] He it is Who gives life and causes death. And when He decrees a thing, He says concerning it, ‘Be!’ and it becomes into being.
And then a number of places where it is specifically mentioned in relation to creating heavens and earth. Namely;
[16:40/41] Our word concerning a thing, when We will it, it is only that We say to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.
[2:117/118] He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.
[6:73/74] And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom; and on the day when He will say, ‘Be’, it will be. His word is the truth, and His will be the Kingdom on the day when the trumpet will be blown. He is the Knower of the unseen and the seen. And He is the Wise, the All-Aware.
[36:82/83] Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says concerning it, ‘Be,’ and it comes into being.
So, if I take the first argument that explaining Hazrat Isa (as)'s birth by arguing that Hazrat Maryam (as) might have been a hermaphrodite or by any other scientific explanation goes against the text of the verse than one can safely argue that trying to explain the origin of the universe, the big bang theory and such likes, is all against the Quran where Allah clearly claimed that He only had to say “‘Be’ and it becomes into being”
In other words, my first question is to find out if the common belief among Shia and Sunni Muslims is that there is no scientific explanation of heavens and earth and their creation was a super natural miracle, totally beyond any scientific explanation, just like Jesus (as) birth?
And my second question, which related to the first one is, if all Allah needs to say is ‘Be’ .. then where do all the angels come into play? If all Allah needs to say is ‘Be’ and the rain will fall, then why Hazrat Mika’eel has to be in charge of that? Wouldn’t rain just fall on it’s own. And is all the scientific explanations of rain bogus?