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Religion Helps Science T o Be Rightly Guided

but the results always proved them wrong. Discoveries confirmed the
proclamations of the Qur'an – that the universe was created from nothing,
that it is tailored to suit human life, and that it is impossible for life to have
come into being and evolved by chance.
Now let us consider these facts one by one.

The Losses the Materialists' Obsession With an
"Infinite Universe" Have Caused Science

Until the early 20th century, the conventional opinion of the scientific
community, which was then under the influence of the materialists, was
that the universe has infinite dimensions, that it existed in infinite time,
and will exist infinitely. According to this view, called the "static universe
model", the universe had neither a beginning nor an end, and was simply
a limitless conglomeration of matter. Denying that the universe was
created, this view laid the groundwork for the materialist philosophy.
Many scientists who espoused materialism, or were partial to such a
philosophy, set the "infinite universe" model as the basis
for their scientific research. Consequently, all
research into astronomy and physics
depended on the hypothesis that
matter existed in infinite time.
For some time, many
scientists labored and

Scientists who
toiled to no avail, as
pursued false
science was soon to goals caused a
great deal of
shatter that misconception.
effort to be
The Belgian scientist, Georges wasted in
Lemaître, was the first to recognize science.
the inaccuracy of the "infinite universe"
model, and postulated a scientific
alternative to it. Based on certain
computations by the Russian scientist,
Alexandre Friedmann, Lemaître declared that

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