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26 TIMELESSNESS AND THE REALITY OF FATE

have admitted the existence of Almighty Allah in the creation of the uni-
verse.
Roger Penrose, a physicist who has done extensive research on the ori-
gin of the universe, has also stated that the universe rests where it is not by
mere coincidence, and this shows that it definitely has a purpose. For some
people, "the universe is just there" and it just goes on being there. We just
happened to find ourselves right in the middle of this whole thing. This
viewpoint would probably not help us in understanding the universe.
According to Penrose's view, there are many deep affairs going on within
the universe whose existence we cannot today perceive. 20

The WMAP Satellite Once Again Proved the Big Bang
The WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite
launched into space in 2001 and that enabled the clearest results to be
obtained in 2003 also verified the accuracy of the Big Bang theory and
enabled discoveries of the greatest significance to be made. Science maga-
zine chose the studies on the basis of the data obtained from the WMAP as
the breakthrough of the year 2003. 21 The great majority of scientists agreed
that the data sent back by WMAP represented a turning point in cosmology.
The cosmic background, the map of which was extracted from WMAP,
dated back 13 billion years. WMAP determined the state of the universe
when it was 390,000 years old. The data from this background enabled a
great many questions about the formation of the galaxies to be answered.

This image prepared from data from the WMAP satellite in 2006 represents the expan-
sion of the universe from the first moment of the Big Bang to the present day.