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Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

In the 1960s, some physicists observed that our universe appears to have
been fine-tuned for the existence of human life. 10
The British astrophysicist Professor George F. Ellis refers to this
fine-tuning in these terms:

Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] pos-
sible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very
difficult not to use the word "miraculous" without taking a stand as to the
ontological status of the word. 11

The Speed of the Big Bang Explosion:

The balances established with the Big Bang, the instantaneous for-
mation of the universe, are one of the proofs that the universe did not
come into being by chance. According to the well-known Adelaide
University professor of mathematical physics Paul Davies, if the rate of
expansion that took place following the Big Bang had been just one in
a billion billion parts different (1/10 ), the universe could not have
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come into being. In his book A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
recognises this extraordinary precision in the universe's rate of expan-

sion:
If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by
even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would
have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size. 13

The Four Forces:

All physical motion in the universe comes about thanks to the
interaction and equilibrium of the four forces recognised by modern
physics: gravity, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force and weak
nuclear force. These forces possess extraordinarily different values to
one another. Michael Denton, the famous molecular biologist, describes
the extraordinary equilibrium among these forces thus:

If, for example, the gravitational force was a trillion times stronger, then

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