“Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs... (45:3)
“The science of modern cosmology, observational and theoretical, 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.(1)
“Then He turned to the heavens when it was smoke...” (41:11)
“Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then We separated them, We made from water every living thing.” (21:30)
“Water is the major constituent of living matter From 50
to 90 percent of the weight of living organisms is water." (2)
"And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander."(51:47)
“Our knowledge of the expansion of the Universe” (3)
“It is He Who created the Night and the Day and the sun and the moon: all (the celestial bodies) SWIM along each in its ROUNDED COURSE.” (21:33)
He created the heavens and earth in truth. He wraps the night over the day and wraps the day over the night and has subjected the sun and the moon, each running [its course] for a specified term. Unquestionably, He is the Exalted in Might, the Perpetual Forgiver. (39:5)
And it is He who spread the earth and placed therein firmly set mountains and rivers; and from all of the fruits He made therein two mates; He causes the night to cover the day. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought. (13:3)
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(1) The First Three Minutes, a Modern View of the Oringin of the Universe, Weinberg, Page: 94-105
(2) Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1996
(3) Understanding the Earth a new synthesis, G.C. Brown, C.J. Hawkesworth & C.C. Wilson 1992, Page:12
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