Man's knowledge of the
origin of the universe is considerably limited. The scientists have
propesed hypotheses and theories of evolution that are centered around one
theme: the radiation era, the primordial fireball and the primordial
matter and anti-matter. The theories state that the universe consisted
mainly of strongly interacting particles. Primordial matter and
antimatter, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, eventually annihilated
each other, and the remaining particles formed the present universe. The
Qur'an presents the development of the universe in relatively simple
terms. Allah says, directing His Messenger Muhammad, peace be upon him, to
ask the unbelievers:
"Say: Is it that ye deny
Him Who created the earth in two Days? And do ye join equals with
Him?
He is the Lord (Sustainer) of all the Worlds. He set on the
(earth) Mountains standing firm, high above it, and bestowed blessings on
the earth, and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for
(all) who ask.
Then He turned to the sky, and it had been (as)
smoke: He said to it and to the earth: 'come ye together willingly or
unwillingly'.
They said: 'We do come (together), in willing
obedience.
So He completed them as seven firmaments in two days,
and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command, and We adorned the
lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard.
Such is the
Decree of (Him) The Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge'.
Do not
the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together
(as one unit of Creation) before We clove them asunder?
We made
from water every living thing.
Will they not then
believe?"
The concept of rending of one
unit into two or more, the celestial (smoke) as referred to in the above
verses are facts which corresponds to factual scientific data. (Smoke),
the English physicist and astronomer Sir James Jean wrote: We have found
that, as Newton first conjectured, a chaotic mass of gas of approximately
uniform density and of very great extent would be dynamically unstable:
nuclei, would tend to form in it, around which the whole of matter would
ultimately condense. On the basis of this theory Newton proposed that all
celestial objects originated by a process of
fragmentation.
Needless to say the space
program helped discover the homogeneity of the substances of which the
moon, the earth and other planets are formed. (Such statements in the
Qur'an concerning the creation which appeared nearly fourteen centuries
ago), Dr. Bucaille concluded, (obviously do not lend themselves to a human
explanation.
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