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Miracles of the Qur’an

lakes are very deep and below sea-level. 51
The book The Expanding Earth describes how it is not only mountains,
but also certain river beds that formed due to the “expansion” of the earth:
In all cases the greatest stress occurred at the location of the earth's
major rivers. This development suggests that the major riverbeds
came into existence as a result of expansion rather than random ero-
sion. Since the continents were fixed on an expanding surface, it may
be logically deduced that expansion caused the land masses to
stretch and, at the points of greatest tension, to break, thus forming
the rivers. 52
In statements regarding the continent of North America, the Utah
Geological Research Center says:

The ranges and basins have been forming for the past 10 to 20 million
years in response to east-west stretching of the earth's crust. Stretching
creates tension that is released by slow continuous movement or sud-
den movement along a fault (a break in the earth's crust), which caus-
es earthquakes. During an earthquake, the mountains rise while the
valleys drop along the faults. The stretching continues today. 53
Facts such as the expansion of the earth can only be established by
comprehensive research and common data from various contemporary
branches of science. For example, photographs taken by satellite, the
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product of 20 century technology, have confirmed the view that the con-
tinents were once complementary to one another. Highly accurate mea-
surements have revealed that the expansion in the earth’s crust is contin-
uing at a slow but specific rate. The presence of such special information
in the Qur’an, at a time when nobody could determine anything about the
continents and, what is more, about formations that took millions of years

to develop, once again shows that it is the word of Allah. The way that
the Qur’an, revealed 1,400 years ago, contains such profound information
about the formation of the earth, is one of its scientific miracles.

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