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The Scientific Miracles of the Qur'an

from 1-5 cm per year. As the plates continue to move about, this will
produce a slow change in Earth's geography. Each year, for instance,
the Atlantic Ocean becomes slightly wider. 61

There is a very important point to be stated here: God has referred to
the motion of mountains as a drifting action in the verse. Today, modern
scientists also use the term "continental drift" for this motion. 62
Continental drift is something which could not be observed at the time of
the revelation of the Qur’an, and in the words, “You will see the mountains
you reckoned to be solid” God revealed in advance the way in which
people were to approach the subject. He then revealed another truth, saying
that the mountains went past like clouds. As we have seen, attention is
drawn in the verse to the mobility of the stratum in which mountains stand.
Unquestionably, it is one of the miracles of the Qur'an that this scientific
fact, which has recently been discovered by science, was announced in the
Qur'an.

The movements of the continents
KITALARIN HAREKETLER‹
200 million The Western
years ago
The pictures to the Hemisphere 50 million
years later
left show the
position of the
continents in the
past. If we assume
that the movements
of the continents
will continue in the
135 million same way, millions
years ago
of years later, they
will be in the
position shown in
the picture to the
right.

65 million years ago The Eastern Hemisphere
50 million years later

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