HOW DID THE UNIVERSE FORM?
Do you know what the universe is? It is endless
space and everything that it holds, earth, the sun, the moon,
the planets and the stars. Even if you walk millions and millions
of miles you will not be able to reach the end of space, and
in fact, you have hardly reached its beginning. The reason
for that is that space is too large to describe.
Earth exists within this limitless space. Along
with earth, the sun, moon, and millions of stars exist in
it as well.
So how did all of these things form? How did
the sun come into being, for example? Or how did our earth
appear?
There are two types of responses to this question.
One of these responses is right and the other is wrong. Those
who respond wrongly are also believers in the theory of evolution.
On the next page, we will first show you the wrong response
and then the right one.
The
wrong response:
Those who respond incorrectly say: The universe
was always there and it came about by itself. That is, a lot
of substances came together on their own by chance to form
the sun, stars, earth, seas, trees, rivers and mountains.
Don't you think this thought is illogical? If
a friend of yours came to you and said something like: "I
had put some soil, stones, and a little bit of water inside
a big box. I waited for a couple of years and then a computer
emerged from this box." Would you believe him? You would probably
think that your friend was joking, lying or mad.
Evolutionists openly tell a tall story just
like that. A computer cannot form all by itself as a result
of some coincidences. First, someone plans what the computer
is supposed to be like, and decides what components are to
be used. Then, in large factories, engineers, technicians
and hundreds of workers come together. They use huge machinery
to put the computer together. That is to say, when you see
a computer you would know that it did not just happen all
by itself. Isn't it obvious that intelligent people make computers?
The sun, earth and other plants are much larger
than a computer. So, if there are those who make computers,
there must be a power that creates the sun, earth, moon and
stars.
The right response:
Did you understand what the right response
is? Allah is the Creator of the sun, earth, planets, and stars.
Everything in the universe is perfect and orderly. That is
because Allah created the universe, and He has put everything
where it belongs.
HOW
DID ALLAH CREATE THE UNIVERSE?
Scientists have made a very important discovery
in recent years. This important discovery was that before
the universe was formed, there was nothing else. There was
no land, no air, no water, and there were no stars; there
was even no space. Inside this nothingness, there was this
tiny spot. This spot was so tiny that it was difficult even
for an eye to see. A lot of matter had been squeezed together
inside this spot. Then, in an instant this spot exploded.
When it exploded, all the matter that was squeezed inside
it flew about. After that, the pieces of matter joined together
to first form atoms, then from those atoms, stars, our sun,
earth and the other planets. The scientists named this explosion
the "Big Bang". Everything in the universe was formed as a
result of this Big Bang.
Here
you have to think about something very important. Let's imagine
that you put the pieces of a puzzle randomly inside a balloon.
After that, you fill your balloon with air and then suddenly
pop it. That is to say the balloon "big banged". What happens
to the puzzle's pieces that you had stuffed inside the balloon?
Could these pieces form a beautiful villa or an airport-something
even you could hardly manage-in the middle of your room? Or
would they scatter all over the room? Of course, they would
scatter all over your room. You would have to put together
the puzzle's pieces for them to form an airport or a house.
Allah is the Maker of the "Big Bang", the Organiser
of the matter that scattered in space after the "Big Bang".
By bringing together all this matter, He is also the Creator
of the sun, earth, planets and stars. When Allah wishes something
to be, He gives the order "Be" and it comes into being. Allah
is Superior and He is the Strongest. His strength is enough
for everything. When He wants something, He can create it
immediately.
Allah has sent us His book "The Qur'an" through
which He introduces Himself and His creation to us. We can
find all the right answers to every question from the Qur'an
and the Sunnah (The Prophet Muhammad's way of life). For example,
when we ask, "How has Allah created everything?" Allah responds
in the Qur'an by saying:
"He (Allah) is the Originator of the
heavens and the earth… He created all things and He has knowledge
of all things." (Surat al-An'am: 101)
ALLAH CREATED EARTH FOR US
"He (Allah) is the Creator of the
Heavens and the Earth..."
(Surat ash-Shura: 11)
Allah is the One Who created earth, the sun,
stars and moon. So how did all the living things on earth
come into being? Imagine a huge planet with its surface completely
empty. There are no humans or animals, no plants or insects.
Earth has been decorated in a lot of detail
for living things to survive. Allah is the One Who has given
earth all these details. Otherwise none of us would have been
able to live, neither you, nor your parents, or indeed any
of your friends would have been here.
Let's consider how Allah created the earth so
that living things can survive:
1. Think about… how orderly everything in the
universe is. The sun has been put in the exact position from
which it could warm us and give us light at the same time.
If there were no sun, there would not have been one living
thing on earth. Neither us, nor the animals nor any other
creatures would have been able to live.
2. Allah has also distanced the sun from earth
to just the right extent. If earth was a little bit closer
to the sun, the heat would have scorched it and we would not
have been able to live. If earth was a little more distant
from the sun, then glaciers would have covered it and again,
few living things would have been able to survive. This is
one of the reasons why there is no life on other planets,
because they are either too close to the sun or too distant
from it.
3. As you know, living things need to breathe
in order to live. We need oxygen in the air so that we can
breathe. Exactly the right amount of oxygen exists in the
air so that human beings can breathe. If there were a little
bit more or a little bit less, neither we, nor the animals,
nor the plants would have survived, because, as we have already
said, we need to breathe in order to live. For this we need
oxygen.
4. One of the most important things that make
it possible for us to survive is water. No organism can live
without water. For this reason, Allah has created some parts
of earth as water. Three quarters of earth's surface is covered
with water. However, there is no water on any of the other
planets nor is there any water on the moon that you see at
night. The essentials for living things are only available
on earth.
Many events on earth make it possible for us
to live. If even only one of these events doesn't take place,
no living thing would be left on earth. So, is it possible
that these thousands of events have come together spontaneously
and formed such a place as earth? Of course not. Not even
one of these events could happen by chance. Allah has created
earth for human beings. And, because of this, earth is the
most suitable place for us.
Do You Think This Is Possible?
You are playing on the beach and, all of a sudden, big
waves approach. So, you quickly leave for home. When
you returm to the beach after a few hours, you see an
amazing sight. There on the shore is a wonderful sandcastle.
The recent big waves couldn't have formed thes castle
"by chance". It is impossible for such a beautiful
neat building to have formed by chance, and just in
the same way it is impossible for living things to have
formed on earth by chance.
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You can give the following example to those
that claim earth and the whole universe were formed by chance.
Let's say that you are playing on the beach and you see some
big waves approaching, so you go home. When you return to
the beach after a few hours, you see an amazing sight. On
the shore there is a wonderful city made of sand. There are
houses, hospitals, an airport, and buses. There are even human
figures. You ask a friend who is passing if he knows how these
things occurred. If he replied, " I think the big waves that
reached the shore must have formed them," what would you think?
Wouldn't you be suspicious that your friend imagined it, or
wouldn't you laugh thinking that he must be joking or had
perhaps become insane?
It is impossible for waves to have formed
such a perfect city from sand by coincidence. It is obvious
that someone who is an expert in building such cities had arrived,
built it and left.
However, certain people - even though
they are professors or scientists - accept such a ridiculous
idea. They won't say, "Waves formed the city made of sand",
but they would say "Tiny pieces of matter, namely the atoms,
came together by chance and they formed the sun, stars and
earth all by themselves." This is because these people wouldn't
want to say that Allah created everything. They defend the
wrong without believing in the right. We will explain who
these people are in more detail towards the end of the book.
THE
SURROUNDING PROTECTIVE SHIELD OF EARTH: THE ATMOSPHERE
Do you know that every day many meteors fall
on earth?
When meteors fall on other planets, they create
giant craters, but when they fall on earth, they don't cause
much harm.
So how do meteors cause great damage to the
surfaces of other planets but not to the surface of earth?
The reason for this is the atmosphere that surrounds
earth. The atmosphere encircles our planet as a protective
shield. A meteor entering the atmosphere shrinks through combustion.
When it comes closer to the surface of earth, it becomes even
smaller. Therefore, the meteor becomes very small or even
diminishes and disappears completely by the time it reaches
the surface of the earth, and causes us no harm.
Meteors
are stones that break off from planets or are the remnants
of material from stars. They go about in space, and from
time to time fall on the surfaces of planets causing them
great damage. But, because Allah has surrounded our planet
with a protective shield, they don't do us much harm.
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The
atmosphere encircles earth as a protective shield. Thanks
to the atmosphere, we are protected from many threats
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The atmosphere doesn't only prevent the harm
of meteors but it also absorbs harmful rays that come from
the Sun. Yet again, if these harmful rays were able to reach
earth's surface, it would have been impossible for living
things to survive.
The two characteristics we have mentioned here
are more than enough to show us that the atmosphere is not
some haphazard thing. Allah-Who has endless mercy upon all
living things on earth and Who at the same time has eternal
power-has created the atmosphere, and with this atmosphere,
He protects us from danger.
CAN ATOMS THINK?
As we explained earlier, after the Big Bang,
particles emerged and came together as ATOMS. Well, do you
know what an atom is?
Let
us first explain to you what an atom is like. We can compare
the atoms to marbles. But these marbles would be too tiny,
unlike anything you have seen before.
Now, look around you! Everything that you see
in reality is made of these marbles, namely the atoms. The
chair on which you are sitting, the book in your hand, your
mother, your teacher at school, the television that you watch,
apples, melons, and the chocolates in the kitchen, your pet,
water, the flowers in your garden, your toys, and even your
body, all are made up of these atoms. As we explained earlier,
the stars and suns that make up the universe and the world
in which we live are also formed of atoms just like you. In
all the places in which you go about and all the corners that
you turn, there are atoms.
You
cannot see these little things that we call atoms, because
they are a lot smaller than you can imagine. They are so small
that even with the largest microscopes, it isn't possible
to see even one of them. To be able to comprehend the tiny
size of the atom, look at this example:
Imagine that you have a key in your hand. Without
a doubt, it is impossible for you to see the atoms that make
up this key. If you say, "I must see these atoms", then you
must visualise the key to be as large as earth. If you were
able to visualise the key to be as large as earth then every
atom inside it would be as large as cherries and so you could
see them.
Well,
how did all the atoms come together after the Big Bang? The
atoms are lifeless. They don't have any minds or any intelligence.
They cannot make any decisions. They cannot say, for example,
"Come on, let's get together and form a star" or "Let's come
closer and form earth". We can also use the following example:
We already mentioned a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces of this puzzle
are lifeless and, like atoms, they cannot make decisions.
If you spread them about, they cannot have thoughts such as
"Well, let's get together and form a castle or a human!"
Then
let's ask again: "How did all these stars, planets, humans
and animals that are made up of atoms come into being? If
the atoms did not make a decision, then who put them together?"
Of
course, nothing around us can occur by coincidence. Allah
is the One Who brings atoms together. Allah has created all
the vastness of space, the planets, stars, earth, animals,
plants and humans from atoms.
HOW ARE HUMANS MADE OF ATOMS?
We have said that atoms come together to form
human beings, but, of course, you must be wondering how this
can happen. First, atoms come together to form CELLS. Again,
we are learning something new: So, what is a cell?
The bodies of all living organisms are made
up of cells. Even if cells are not as small as atoms, they
are still very small and cannot be seen with the naked eye.
We can try to explain their tiny size with the following example:
If we brought together about 10,000 cells, we could make up
something just about the size of the head of a pin. This is
why you cannot see them. But cells are the building blocks
of humans, ants, cats, roses, trees, and all other living
organisms around you. You, for instance, are made up of trillions
of cells.
So, where did all these trillions of cells come
from?
Look at your brother. He wasn't there two years
ago, then all of a sudden he appeared and slowly he started
to grow. How did this amazing event happen?
Your brother started out as a single cell in
your mother's abdomen. But this single cell was storing a
lot of important information inside. All the information that
has made your brother into who he is used to be stored in
this cell: his eye colour, hair colour, height, etc.
Then this cell grew a little and started to
divide. First, it divided in two. However, here something
happened that you would find very interesting: The information
in the cell did not divide into two. That means the same information
was duplicated in the two cells. After this, the cells continued
to divide and the same information duplication happened in
all of them, resulting in many cells with the same information.
Then these were divided into others, and others divided into
others. This event continued until millions of cells formed.
While all this was happening, something you
would never guess took place!
These cells, although they contain the same
information, started doing tasks that are different from each
other. Some of them formed your brother's skin. Some others
formed his muscles, yet others his skeleton, and others his
brain neurons.
While the cells continued to multiply, the group
of cells that was almost like a ball started to take shape.
As you can see in the pictures at the top of the page, first
your brother's head appeared, followed by his thin arms and
then his legs. The cells continued to grow and divide and
after nine months, they turned into a complete baby. You met
him for the first time when he was "born".
All the things that we have said until now may
surprise you. You probably have thought about why cells took
on different tasks or how they were able to combine in such
a neat shape. Allah is the One Who does all of this. Cells
are tiny beings that are invisible to the naked eye. Like
atoms, it is impossible for cells all on their own to make
decisions or to come together to form a human being. It is
nonsense to even think that your brother or other human beings
are made up of cells that came together by coincidence.
Allah, the Creator of all, has created all human
beings perfectly and He has told the people to think about
this in the Book that He has sent us:
Does not man recall
that We created him before when he was not anything? (Surah
Maryam: 67)
You, like your brother and all other human beings,
started to grow from a single cell, continued to grow and
turned into a full person. Right now, you are living a nice
life in this world. You owe all of this to Allah. Allah shows
great mercy to you and gives you many blessings. So, don't
ever forget to thank your Creator, Allah.
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