Re: Islam promoting thought and false accusations: Att. Ummm
What the Muslim scientists realise or didn't realise doesn't matter. We are talking about the Quran
The consensus among early scholars of Islam, whose knowledge of Classical Fusha Arabic and ability to understand and interpret the actual text of the Quran far surpasses yours (which basically seems to be limited to cutting & pasting decontextualized passages of the Quran from the Faith Freedom International website), was that the earth was of a spherical shape.