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any other star whose mass was substantially different from the Sun's could
harbor life. The only source of energy capable of supporting life is a star
like our Sun. The only planetary distance that is suitable for life is the
distance between the Earth and the Sun.
There is another way of expressing this truth: The Sun and the Earth
were each created to be just as they needed to be. And indeed, in the
Qur'an it is revealed that Allah created everything according to precise cal-
culation:
It is He Who splits the sky at dawn, and appoints the night as a
time of stillness and the Sun and Moon as a means of reckoning.
That is what the Almighty, the All-Knowing has ordained. (Surat
al-An’am: 96)

The Harmony of Light and Atmosphere
Since the beginning of this chapter we have been talking about the ra-
diation given out by the Sun and how it was specially created to support
life. There is yet another crucially important factor that we have not yet
touched upon: In order for this radiation to reach the Earth's surface, it has
to pass through the atmosphere.
Sunlight certainly couldn't do us any good if the atmosphere didn't let
it through. But it does; in fact, our atmosphere is specially created to be
transparent to this beneficial radiation.
The really interesting thing is not so much that the atmosphere allows
beneficial sunlight to pass but that sunlight is the only radiation that it al-
lows through. The atmosphere lets in the visible and near infrared light that
is necessary for life but it blocks other forms of radiation that are deadly.
This makes the atmosphere an important filter against the cosmic radiation
that reaches the Earth from the Sun and from other sources. Denton has
this to say about the matter:
Atmospheric gases themselves absorb electromagnetic radiation imme-
diately on either side of the visible and near infrared... The only region
of the spectrum allowed to pass through the atmosphere over the entire