I have never found anything in the Koran that seems like a scientific miracle. However there is something in the Hadiths that, if authentic suggests that Muhammad was capable of seeing into the future:
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 179:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair."
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Volume 4, Book 52, Number 180:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "The Hour will not be established till you fight with people wearing shoes made of hair. And the Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose faces look like shields coated with leather. " (Abu Huraira added, "They will be) small-eyed, flat nosed, and their faces will look like shields coated with leather.")
It almost seems like Muhammad was predicting the Turkish and/or Mongol invasions and migrations into the Middle East circa 1100-1400 AD (about 600 years after his lifetime). This is undoubtably the most significant major event that has occurred in the Middle East since the time of Muhammad and would indeed be an appropriate thing for a Prophet to predict (great Empires were overthrown and whole new peoples and languages came to populate the region). How could Muhammad have known about this great migration of peoples?
This is the most convincing thing I have ever seen to suggest that Muhammad was divinely inspired. Curiously I have never heard a Muslim using as proof of Muhammad's divine inspiration, I stumbled upon it myself.
Of course ther are obvious problems with it too:
- The words ""The Hour will not be established till..." suggests that he was talking about doomsday, i.e. the end of the world which has still not happened. In that case it seems unlikley that he would be talking about something in the Medieval Era.
- He also says the same thing a few hadiths before hand, but replace "Turks" with "Jews", if he predicted that the Muslims would be fighting every ethnic group then eventually he will get one prediction right.
- It is extremly possible that this Hadith was simply made up or exagerated, i.e. certain words like "Turks" might have been added many hundreds of years later by later transmitters, no idea what word is used in the original Arabic langauge, but it all seems a bit suspect to me.
But at least this is a sort of Prophesy that has half come true. But Muhammad should have had many more, afterall isn't that what prophets are supposed to do? Make Prophesies I mean.
Aside from this, the only other thing that I have ever observed in nature that would lend itself to the idea that the Universe was designed by a conscience being with a similar appreciation for order and neatness as humans have is the fact that solar eclipses can happen. The Moon is much smaller than the Sun but it is located at a perfect distance from the Earth relative to the sun that it can perfectly cover the Sun at certain times when they line up. That seems like a remarkable coincidence. Then again I am not an astrophysicist so I do not really know if my analysis is really true, perhaps the moon is actually considerably larger than the minimum size needed to cover the sun, or perhaps there are so many other variables at play (i.e. the moon's orbit is afterall elliptical, not spherical so a range of various sizes would also work at different times depending on how far the moon was away at that precise moment)
Anyway this second point is not really related to Islam specifically as it would apply to any religion. In fact it is the ancient Maya that knew most about the exact dates of the solar eclipses....
Topic: which are the least ridiculous 'scientific miracles' in the quran