Universe Itself Proves God’s Existence

Among His proofs are the creations of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your languages and your colors. In these, there are signs for the knowledgeable. [30:22]

Today, we have discovered a powerful and elegant way to understand the universe. We call it science. We like in an enlightened world, every day of which brings forth new and exciting discoveries attesting to the existence of the one creator. Science is clearly revealing to us the unmistakable fingerprints of God -providing mute but clear testimony of His omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence.

The size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Our earth is lost in its immensity, and yet from this terra firma, humans have made astonishing discoveries of the cosmos and our place within it.

These discoveries remind us that we have to continue to question, to always keep an open mind and use the knowledge thereby acquired to understand the role of the creator and purpose of our creation.

The Quran, the Final Testament, was written 1400 years ago; and the bible 2000 and more, yet, when we look at the scriptures and at the recent scientific discoveries we see astonishing similarities.

Up until the mid twenties, the universe was to considered to have always existed, to be neither expanding nor collapsing, but standing still.

It was only in the 1940’s that Hawking and Penrose put forth the mathematical calculations which showed that the universe had to have an origin - that there was a beginning in which all matter was concentrated in a single point (popularly known as a singularity), that there was a Big Bang in which this point emerged and exploded, creating our universe, space and time. It is a well known fact that at the singularity all the known laws of science and the normal concepts of space and time break down- they no longer apply.

Proof that their calculations of the origin were accurate was provided by Robert Wilson and Arnold Penzias in 1964.Their accidental finding of background microwave radiations of low intensity distributed evenly throughout the universe was correctly interpreted as a relic of the Big Bang. In other words, a primordial explosion of enormous proportions that began the whole process was expected to leave just such a residue, or ‘echo’ from a ‘smoking gun’.

It is amazing that this very scenario is spelled out in the Quran:

Do the unbelievers not realize that the heaven and the earth use to be one solid mass to be exploded into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe? [21:30]

is of a cosmos starting out in an utterly featureless state and then progressing in a very orderly fashion, or more specifically, expanding:         

We constructed with our hands, and we will continue to expand it. [51:47]

We are witnessing, and indeed participating in a creative act that is taking place throughout time.

That the universe is expanding was directly confirmed by Edwin Hubble’s measurements of the light emitting from various galaxies. These measurements proved that they were moving away from each other at a rate directly proportional to their the distance from the Milky Way. The expansion is so precisely set that it neither runs away in an accelerating manner, resulting in a universe long since dissipated, nor will it give way to recompression for a final Big Crunch.

There is no ambiguity in the above scriptural statements. They are clear and precise. They were written in the ‘dark ages’ and only in the light of recent scientific data are we able to understand and interpret their meaning accurately.

It is obvious, even at a casual glance, to any observer that the universe is remarkably ordered on all scales. At the Big Bang, just enough non-uniformity was included in the original chemistry to allow

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