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The Origin of Life and the Universe

8 3 + 2 3 Do those who are unbelievers not see that
the heavens and the earth were sewn together
0 and then We unstitched them and that We
made from water every living thing? So will
they not have faith? (Surat al-Anbiya, 30)
In addition to explaining the universe, the Big
Bang model has another important implication. As There is a very important choice of words in the
the quotation from Anthony Flew cited above points original Arabic whose translation is given above.
out, science has proven an assertion hitherto sup- The word ratk translated as "sewn to" means "mixed
ported only by religious sources. in each, blended" in Arabic dictionaries. It is used to
This truth is the reality of Creation from nothing- refer to two different substances that make up a
ness. This has been declared in the holy books that whole. The phrase "we unstitched" is the verb fatk
have served as guides for mankind for thousands in Arabic and implies that something comes into
of years. being by tearing apart or destroying the structure of
In the only book revealed by God that has survived ratk. The sprouting of a seed from the soil is one of
completely intact, the Qur'an, there are statements the actions to which this verb is applied.
about the Creation of the universe from nothing as Let us take a look at the verse again with this
well as how this came about that are parallel to knowledge in mind. In the verse, sky and earth are
20 -century knowledge and yet were revealed four- at first subject to the status of ratk. They are
th
teen centuries ago. separated (fatk) with one coming out of the other.
First of all, the Creation of this universe from not- Intriguingly, cosmologists speak of a "cosmic egg"
hingness is revealed in the Qur'an as follows: that consisted of all the matter in the universe prior
to the Big Bang. In other words, all the heavens and
He (God) is the Originator of the heavens and
earth were included in this egg in a condition of
the earth…(Surat al-An’am, 101)
ratk. This cosmic egg exploded violently causing its
Another important aspect revealed in the Qur'an matter to fatk and in the process created the structure
of the whole universe.
Another truth revealed in the Qur'an
is the expansion of the universe that
was discovered in the late 1920s. Hubb-
le's discovery of the red shift in the
spectrum of starlight is revealed in the
Qur'an as:
It is We Who have built the universe
with (Our creative) power, and, verily,
it is We Who are steadily expanding
it. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 47)
In short, the findings of modern science
support the truth that is revealed in the
Qur'an and not materialist dogma. Ma-
terialists may claim this all to be "coinci-
dence" but the plain fact is that the uni-
verse came into being as a result of an
fourteen centuries before the modern discovery of act of Creation on the part of God and the only true
the Big Bang and findings related to it is that knowledge about the origin of universe is to be
when it was created, the universe occupied found in the word of God as revealed to us.
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