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The Formation Adventure Of The Atom

phenomena are based on much finer
calculations then we can imagine: He has made night and day
If the rate of expansion one se- subservient to you, and the
cond after the big bang had be- sun and moon and stars, all
en smaller by even one part in subject to His command.
a hundred thousand million There are certainly Signs in
million, the universe would ha- that for people who use their
ve recollapsed before it ever re- intellect.
ached its present size. 9 (Surat an-Nahl: 12)
The Big Bang, which is built on
such fine calculations, evidently reveals that time, space and matter did not
come into being spontaneously, but were created by Allah. It is absolutely
impossible for the events described above to have formed as a result of she-
er coincidence and to lead to the formation of the atom, the building block of
the universe.
Unsurprisingly, many scientists working on the subject have accepted
the existence of an infinite force and its might in the creation of the universe.
The renowned astrophysicist Hugh Ross explains that the Creator of the uni-
verse is beyond all dimensions:

By definition, time is that dimension in which cause-and-effect pheno-
mena take place. No time, no cause and effect. If time's beginning is
concurrent with the beginning of the universe, as the space-time the-
orem says, then the cause of the universe must be some entity operating
in a time dimension completely independent of and pre-existent to the
time dimension of the cosmos. …It tells us that the Creator is transcen-
dent, operating beyond the dimensional limits of the universe. It tells us
that God is not the universe itself, nor is God contained within the uni-
verse. 10
The most important aspect of the Big Bang is that it gives mankind the
chance to understand Allah's power better. The origination of a universe
with all the matter it contains from nothing is one of the greatest signs of
Allah's might. The delicate equilibrium in the energy at the moment of the
explosion is a very big sign directing us towards thinking about the infinity
of Allah's knowledge.

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