The Life of This World is but Chattel of Deception #38

February 11, 2021

The Big Bang in the Quran

From the Quran:

“Don’t the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth

Were stitched together and We split them asunder

And We created from water every living thing?

Will they still not believer?”

Quran, 21:30

To fully appreciate the full impact of this powerful statement, I will take my readers back to the early part of the first century AC when the famed Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy wrote the Almagast, a comprehensive treatise on astronomy that became one of longest-in-use scientific texts in history.

In it, he drew the universe with the earth stationary at its center surrounded by several crystalline spheres that carried within them the sun, the stars and the planets and inhibited a perfect heavenly realm.

This theory — ridiculous as it may sound to any high school student today — was adopted as dogma by the church and when another famed scientist Galileo (1564–1642) challenged some aspects of it, he was jailed by the church and forced to recant his story.

It took the influential scientist Copernicus (1473–1543) to challenge the theory and offer his own where he places the sun, correctly, at the center of the universe, which was later adopted and expanded upon.

It was not until early in the 20th century that some theories came out about the initial creation. One called the Steady State theory was advanced by a British astronomer named Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), who claimed that the universe was always in existence and thus there was no creator. He was a committed atheist.

This theory was later totally debunked by scientists such as the American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1895–1935), who observed through telescope that the universe is in a continuous state of expansion. That was followed by a new theory by a Belgian astronomer and priest George Le maître (1894- 1966) who theorized that the universe expanded from a central point called a primeval atom and it was initiated by a creator.

Subsequent scientists — with the help of probes by the US Space Agency — determined with extreme accuracy that the universe was initiated by an initial explosion that took place some 13.72 billion years ago. Hoyle referred to this explosion sarcastically as the Big Bang and the name stuck.

So here is a challenge to all those who contemplate the facts and seek knowledge: how could the prophet Muhamad, a man of the desert who could not read or even write his own name, make such a bold statement about the initial creation starting with entity that was broken up, 1400 years before scientist discovered that fact if it was not indeed the word of God?

The Quran plainly states:

“Would they not then ponder on this Quran,

Has it been from other than God,

they would have found a lot of discrepancy in it.”

Quran, 4:82

Next week, I intend to present further verses from the Quran describing details of the creation of the heavens and the earth in six celestial days.