Islam claimed through the Quran that bird flying is a miracle of Allah and that Allah holds the birds up in the sky.
“Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe”
Quran 16:79
Today, engineers and scientists are well aware of the aerodynamic properties of a bird’s wing. It functions by creating a difference in the air pressure between the lower and upper part of the wing and this creates lift that pushes the bird upward. The wings of birds evolved over millions of years to acquire this feature.
The author of the Qur’an, however, is unaware of these scientific details and says that ‘nothing’ holds up the bird except the miraculous power of Allah.
Looking at birds and simply saying “Subhan Allah” translates Amazing Allah in praising it as a miracle for 1430 years did not get us to fly. It is those who saw it as nothing but a natural process are able to study it and recreate it. Proving again, no miracle here and another scientific error in the Quran!
For more scientific errors in the Quran, check out these:
https://youtu.be/8yMD99gyr14
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Scientific_Errors_in_the_Quran