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The Origin of Life and the Universe

( ' 5 ' age we do not know, survives at this wondrous
size within a flawless order at the command of
0 our Almighty Lord. In revealing this matchless
creation of the universe in the Qur’an, Almighty
God also reminds us of His greatness:
The universe was created in a moment by Almighty
God telling it “Be!” Created in such a short time, the “Do those who are disbelievers not see that
universe still possesses a glorious variety and har- the heavens and the earth were sewn together
and then We unstitched them and that We
mony. God’s creation of the entire universe is a
great blessing for human beings, because it shows made from water every living thing? So will
us that we are under the control of the Omniscient they not have faith?” (Surat al-Anbiya, 30)
God.
The universe, which enfolds outer space and all The sensitive tasks of supernovae
things, possesses an immaculate creation, matchless in the universe
systems and includes our Earth with a balance and A giant star destroys itself in a huge explosion
order meeting all the conditions needed to sustain and all the matter it contains is scattered at high
life. All scientific findings in the 20 and 21 Centuries speed in all directions. The light emitted during
th
st
in particular show that the universe is the result of this explosion is thousands of times more powerful
an immaculate creation. The one truth revealed by than that normally given off by the star. The scat-
science is that All-Mighty and All-Knowing God tering of a star in this way is known as a supernova.
created the universe. Astronomers estimate that these explosions
serve to carry matter from one point in the universe
The observable universe to another. The stellar wastes scattered in the
Researchers calculate the age of the universe explosion are believed to collect in other corners
at 13.8 billion years. However, that calculation is of the universe and to form new stars or stellar
based on the link between the speed of light and systems. According to this hypothesis, the sun,
distance, and a distance of 13.8 billion light years the planets in the solar system and of course our
is observable from the Earth. This is rather like earth all emerged as the result of a supernova
only being able to see a certain distance around explosion in very, very remote times.
from a ship in the middle of the ocean. In the The amazing thing however is that supernovae,
same way, scientists are able to see a distance of which might look like ordinary explosions at first
13.8 billion light years from the Earth with their te- sight, are in fact built around highly sensitive ba-
lescopes. As shown by the use of the word “ob- lances. As Michael Denton writes in his book Na-
servable,” we are still unaware of the existence of ture’s Destiny:
a region beyond that distance. It is therefore im- The distances between supernovae and indeed
possible for us to acquire absolutely definitive in- between all stars is critical for other reasons. The
formation about the age of the universe or its di- distance between stars in our galaxy is about 30
mensions. However, the scientifically proven fact million miles. If this distance was much less, pla-
is that this universe we are still unable to observe netary orbits would be destabilized. If it was much
is constantly expanding. Another interesting feature more, then the debris thrown out by a supernova
of the universe, whose age we are unable to cal- would be so diffusely distributed that planetary
culate, is that it was created from nothing in the systems like our own would in all probability never
explosion known as the “Big Bang.” The form. If the cosmos is to be a home for life, then
universe we cannot observe, and whose the flickering of the supernovae must occur at a
very precise rate and the average distance between