AL FROM CAMBRIDGE said:
THIS IS A REPLY TO ALL YOUR MESSAGES ABOVE.
CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
1) "Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke...(The Noble Quran, 41:11)"
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....clearly indicates that, at one point in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of smoke (i.e. an opaque highly dense and hot gaseous composition). The First Three Minutes, a modern view of the origin of the universe'' Steven Weinberg pp 94-)
Al, have you tried reading the whole sura?
[41.9] Say: What! do you indeed disbelieve in Him Who created the earth in two periods, and do you set up equals with Him? That is the Lord of the Worlds.
[41.10] And He made in it
mountains above its surface, and He blessed therein and made therein its
foods, in four periods: alike for the seekers.
[41.11]
Then He directed Himself to the heaven and it is a vapor, so He said to it and to the earth: Come both, willingly or unwillingly. They both said: We come willingly.
This quite clearly states that the heavens were created after the earth had been made suitable for life. This did not happen in the first three minutes of the universe.
2) Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then we separated them (Koran 21:30).
At the time of the Big Bang the earth didn’t exist. All that was created was Hydrogen, helium and some lithium but no earth.
Only later in vast stars were the larger atoms formed.
3) "We created the univese with our force and we are expanding it"
The Holy Quran, Zariyat: 47
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YUSUFALI: With power and skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of pace.
PICKTHAL: We have built the heaven with might, and We it is Who make the vast extent (thereof).
SHAKIR: And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and most surely We are the makers of things ample.
Not according to these translations. Reinterpretations are very convenient.
4) "The Day that We roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed),- even as We produced the first creation, so shall We produce a new one: a promise We have undertaken: truly shall We fulfil it. (The Noble Quran, 21:104)"
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Stephen Hawkings agrees with this through his theorey of the Big Crunch.
If the universe has a beginning then it makes sense that it must have an ending.
As the Quran talks about the Resurrection, then the universe will presumably end then (in less than a thousand years?).
BLACK HOLES
The Koran is aware of the phenomenon of "black holes", stars that have collapsed under their intense gravitational field, so that even light cannot escape.
I swear by the sky and (the phenomena of) Tariq.
And what will explain to you what Tariq is?
It is a star that pierces (or makes a hole). (Koran 86:1-3)
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The Koran uses the word Thaqib in Arabic, a word that literally signifies a puncture or a minute hole
"Space is already being punctured by the formation of black holes..."
Martin Rees, Master of Trinity College Cambridge (Our Cosmic Habitat (2001) (Rees, page 120)
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YUSUFALI: (It is) the Star of
piercing brightness;-
PICKTHAL: - The
piercing Star!
SHAKIR: The star of
piercing brightness;
Piercing also means to make a hole yet it can also be used to mean a small bright point of light. Where does it actually say the star is black?
STRING THEOREY
"By the sky with all its weavings/knittings (huu-buk)" (Koran 51:7) .
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"According to our present concepts, empty space is anything but simple..., and on an even tinier scale, it may be a seething tangle of strings." Martin Rees, Master of Trinity College Cambridge (Our Cosmic Habitat (2001) (Rees, page 107)
Weaving is often used as a metaphor for the complexity and uncertainty of life.
MOONLIGHT
By the Sun and its brightness
And by the moon when it imitates it (i.e. reflects that brightness)
And by the day which reveals it.
By the night which conceals it." (Koran 91:1-4)
Common observation.
ORBITS
"Oath to the universe (all things in it) which is going and revolving"
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And we know that from atoms to the galaxies, everything in the universe are revolving.
Look up at the night sky. The sun, moon and the stars can all be seen to revolve around the earth.
OZONE LAYER
We made the sky a preserved and protected roof, yet the still turn away from our signs. (Quran, 21:32)
Protected from what? From the heavens falling on us? I see no mention of UV light.
Consider yourself living in 7th Century Arabia:
If you did then you would realise that all these verses would have made perfect sense to them.
You and others are trying to reinterpret simple and often poetic verses into major scientific theories. Yet I see no reason not to accept the simpler interpretation of the desert Arabs.
