Science in the Quran

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Science in the Quran
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Why study the issue of science in the Quran?
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Taha 2070-73
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The difference between Pharaoh and the Sorcerers
Knowledge! Pharaoh's ignorance led him to miss
the signs of God. Ignorance of the laws of
nature can lead us to miss the signs of God.
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Why study the issue of science in the Quran?

• I. Prove the authenticity of the Quran ????
• II. Better appreciate the verses of the Quran
• - ultimately, a gateway to faith and an act of
  worship!
• Provide an alternative relationship between
  religion and science
• - John Maddox, the editor of Nature, in an
  article titled Defending Science
• against Anti-Science said, it may not be
  long before the practice of religion
• must be regarded as anti-science.
  (Not ancient history.)!
• - In August 1999, a debate was ignited by the
  decision of the Kansas State
• Board of Education to de-emphasize
  the topics of macroevolution (the concept of
• evolutionary change at or above the level
  of species), the geologic timescale, and the
• Big Bang theory of the origin of the
  universe in the statewide science standards.
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  http//www.geocities.com/jjmohn/governance.htm

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• Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the
  earth and the alternation of night and day there
  are indeed Signs for men of understanding.
• Men who celebrate the praises of Allah standing
  sitting and lying down on their sides and
  contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the
  heavens and the earth (with the thought) "Our
  Lord! not for naught hast thou created (all)
  this! Glory to thee! give us salvation from the
  penalty of the fire.
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  Al-Imran 3190-191

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Al-Rahman 5537
And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red
like burning oil
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The Cats Eye Nebula, Hubble space
telescope. http//hubblesite.org/gallery/album/ent
ire_collection/1
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And so amongst men and crawling creatures and
cattle are they of various colors. Those truly
fear Allah among His Servants who have knowledge
for Allah is Exalted in Might Oft-Forgiving.
Fatir 3528
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One other critical facet of science important to
faith It teaches us that what seems to be
real often is not -- it is but a surface
illusion.
The overarching lesson that has emerged from
scientific inquiry over the last century is that
human experience is often a misleading guide to
the true nature of reality. Lying just beneath
the surface of the everyday is a world wed
hardly recognize. The Fabric of the Cosmos,
Brian Greene, Professor of Physics, Columbia
University
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Examples
The earth is round, not flat. The earth moves
around the sun, not the sun around the
earth. Air has weight. Matter is not solid, but
made up of jiggling atoms (and is mostly empty
space the diameter of the nucleus is about
1/10,000 the diameter of an atom. If we take
away the empty space, an object the size of a
penny would weigh about 30 million tons!).
Feynman quote! Time is not absolute, it is
relative (so is length) the absolute is
spacetime. There is an equivalence between
energy and matter.
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The earth moves, not the sun??
Speed of the earth 30 km/sec 67,500 mph
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Islamic Astronomy (dated 14th century) These 2
diagrams from Ibn ash-Shatir's Nihayat al-sul
illustrate the first successful representation of
the motions of Planet Mercury exclusively in
terms of uniform circular rotations
www.islaminside.com/blog/syukri/1313/Advances...
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Al Anbiya 2133
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.
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ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/.../sig05-010_medium.jpg
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The sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the
Milky Way Galaxy. It is located about 26,000
light years from the center of the Galaxy (1 ly
6 trillion miles). It orbits the center of the
galaxy at a speed of 200 km/sec ( about 450,000
miles/hr compared to earths speed of 67,500
miles/hr).
http//stevekluge.com/geoscience/images/milkyways
un.jpg
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Yusuf Ali When the sun (with its spacious
light) is folded up Pickthall When the sun
is overthrown, Al-Tabari This means it will
be darkened. (quoted by Ibn Kathir) Said bin
Jubayr Kuwwirat means it will sink in.
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Kawwar to roll and enlarge (al-imma), ball up,
conglomerate, agglomerate According to Lisan
al-Arab (except for when it refers to the Quranic
verse) and to Al-Mawrid dictionary
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Nuh 7116
"And made the moon a light in their midst and
made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?
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Air has weight Air exerts 14.7 pounds per
square inch!
Pioneering scientists discovered atmospheric
pressure barometric or air in the 17th century,
and determined a startling new factthat air
actually has weight. Evangelista Torricelli, one
of the first to discover atmospheric pressure,
once said, "We live submerged at the bottom of an
ocean of the element air."
http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/exposure/pres
sure.html
http//kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/ba
lloon.html
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And whomsoever God wills to guide, his bosom He
opens wide with willingness towards
self-surrender unto Him and whomsoever He
wills to let go astray, his bosom He causes to be
tight and constricted, as if he were climbing
unto the skies it is thus that God inflicts
horror upon those who will not believe. Al-Anam
6125
The highest point in Saudi Arabia, Jabal Sawda
(3,207 m/10,522 ft), is near the border with
Yemen. (MSN Encarta)
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Equivalence of energy and matter
To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens
and the earth when He decreeth a matter He saith
to it "Be" and it is. (Al-Baqaraa 2117)
The issue of creation ex nihilo
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E mc2
Pair production refers to the creation of an
elementary particle and its antiparticle, usually
from a photon
Pair production can only occur if the photon has
an energy exceeding twice the rest mass(me) of an
electron (1.022 MeV)
http//abyss.uoregon.edu/js/images/pair_productio
n.gif
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Conclusion 1 This Quran could not have been
authored by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Conclusion 2 Things are not what they seem. We
only see what is on the surface, not the true
inner reality.
They say "What! when we die and become dust and
bones could we really be raised up
again? Al-Muminun 23 82
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Al-Rum 306-8
It is a promise of Allah. Allah faileth not His
promise, but most of mankind know not. They know
but the outer (things) in the life of this world
but of the End of things they are heedless. Have
they not pondered upon themselves? Allah created
not the heavens and the earth, and that which is
between them, save with truth and for a destined
end. But truly many of mankind are disbelievers
in the meeting with their Lord.