THE QURAN EXPLAINS GEOLOGY

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 368 ~ This study thus reveals that, in the past, certain tracts of land were not situated where they are today; on the contrary, they were situated exactly at places where the theory of drifting continents would suggest. P.M. Blacket, Professor of Physics at the Imperial College, London, writes that measurements of Indian stones definitely show that seventy million years ago, India was situated south of the equator and that examination of South African rocks reveals that the African continent split off from the land mass at the South Pole three hundred million years ago. The word which is used in the Quranic verse to describe this phenomenon of drift and dispersal is dahw. It has the same connotations as the English word ‘drift’ in, for example, “The rain water caused the sand particles to drift away from the land. “Such a wonderful similarity between this version, from the remotest past, of major geological changes and the discoveries of the present day cannot be explained in any other way than that the Quran springs from a Being whose knowledge far surpasses the limitations of time and space.