Earth’s Protective Shield

sun and come towards the Earth. Despite this, how is it that human beings and animals are still alive on Earth? The reason for this is that the Earth’s atmosphere, which stretches several hundred miles over the planet’s surface, has several layers, one of which consists of ozone gas. Due to its particular structure, when ultraviolet rays fall on it, it absorbs them, preventing them from reaching the Earth’s surface. This layer of ozone gas saves human beings from the harm of ultraviolet rays. As mentioned in the above Quranic verse (21:32): “We have made the heaven a well-secured canopy,” God has established a protective shield above the Earth in the form of the atmosphere. The recent scientific research on the atmosphere is intellectual support in favour of this statement of the Quran. Research has revealed that a natural reaction occurs among the gases present in the atmosphere at a height of between 20-50 kilometres. A new sort of molecule emerges from this process, producing ozone gas. A thick layer of ozone gas is spread on all sides of the Earth. This atmospheric umbrella works as a protective shield for man. Without it, human beings would not have been able to remain alive on Earth. Modern industrial civilization has produced new problems for man. One of these is that significant damage is being done to the ozone layer due to factories’ production of certain gases. As a result, ultraviolet rays reach the Earth’s surface, causing various unsolvable problems for man. From a scientific point of view, the change in the atomic structure of oxygen molecules is the cause of the production