Spirit of Islam, Jan 2014

T HE inventor of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, once said in an interview that the Big Bang theory is more interesting than any religious theory regarding the origin of the universe. The Big Bang theory is clearly mentioned in the following verse of the Quran: Do not those who deny the truth see that the heavens and the earth were one solid mass which we tore asunder, and that we have made every living thing of water? Will they still not believe? (THE QURAN 21: 30) The Quran here address all mankind. It is speaking beyond the level of time to all mankind; it tells them that there is proof of the existence of the One God in the universe before their eyes. Why, then, do they deny it? In 1912, the American astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher discovered from his observation of the stars from Lowell Observatory in America, that some galaxies were rapidly moving outwards. This theory was later confirmed by Edwin Hubble and Milton Humanson. In fact, their observations through the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson showed that all galaxies were moving in an outward direction. The more science advances, the closer it comes to God. The Dutch astronomer, Willem de Sitter later accumulated further evidence in support of the theory that the universe was exponentially expanding. Then in 1965, New Jersey scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation emitted by the Big Bang that marked the origin of the universe. So much evidence has accumulated in support of the Big Bang Theory that it has now come to be regarded as an established fact. This theory implies that the universe is not infinite; it has a definite beginning. It shows that we live in an expanding universe. All around us galaxies are careering outwards at a stupendous pace. It has been THE BIG BANG THEORY Proving The Existence Of God