Dear ealtaf, haroon yahya is not a reliable source for islamic information as regard science. he is not a scientist but follows christian creationists' ideology.
The quran has been grossly misinterpreted so any translation and interpretation of the quran is doubtful because none of them is based upon any proper research or exploration of the issues.
http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthre...AB-V-SECULARISM-Where-should-we-stand-and-why
No nation was ever destroyed by Allah because Allah is kind and compassionate not a monster as explained in the link I provided. It is a serious offense in sight of Allah that people should attribute lies to him. If you open up tafaseer by these so called great scholars of islam that is exactly what they did. By their lies they turned Allah in to a cruel God a very harsh being.
It will therefore be a good idea to not to rely on such peoples' interpretation who even failed to convey the proper sense and respect for God.
All nations were either destroyed through civil wars due to inflicting harm and destruction upon each other or that one nation attacked another for similar reasons. Oppression and suppression, injustice, unfairness, cruelty, animosity, regression and poverty destroyed them. Things that are destroying us today were the things that destroyed them because that was the consequence of their own actions against each other.
The whole quran has been misinterpreted not just story of prophet lot and his people. It will be good to rediscover what the original story was rather than push what is not true at all, because that is not how Allah set up the world to work. The world hs always worked the same way because Allah always made it work the same way and that is what sunnatallah means. 6/115, 10/64, 33/38, 62, 35/43, 40/85, 48/23, 50/29 etc. This is why accepting natural laws is absolutely necessary. This was major point raised in india by sir seyyed ahmed khan against mazhab parast mullahs. One can read detailed discussions in his makalaat.
http://www.aboutquran.com/ba/ba.htm
Hope this helps further discussion based on solid arguments.
regards and all the best.