Creation and Big Bang
How was this universe created? By a big bang, evolution in millions of years or by God in six days as the Bible describes? Today, scientists and evolutionists claim that this world is millions and billions of years old and was created by a great explosion that took place millions of years ago. Many scientists believe that this solar system is formed by big bang. They say millions of years ago, a great explosion took place that produced energy and the planets, sun, moon and earth were created. At the same time, scientists have failed to produce life by exploding rocks or by generating energy or chemical reactions of amino acids.

The Quran says that the big bang resulted in the creation, as we read in Al-Anbiyâ' sura 21:30, "Do the unbelievers not realize that the heavens and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water, we made all living things. Would they believe?"

The Quran also says, 41:11-12 that, "Moreover He comprehended in His design the sky, and it had been (as) smoke."

Osama Abdullah writes in his article, "The Big Bang Theory and the Cosmic Crunch in the Noble Quran", (Published in http://answering-christianity.com), "Anyway, as we clearly see above in the Noble Verses, Allah Almighty initially created the Universe or the "samaa" with smoke (Dukhan). Dukhan in Arabic refers to the smoke coming from fire, which is always HOT GAS. "

Today many scientists also believe that earth was like a fireball and it slowly cooled down in millions of years. And they believe that "somehow" one cell came into existence, and by dividing, it formed a small body and life began in this planet. But there is no evidence of all these things. One tiny cell cannot form different kinds of species, because every tiny cell has all the genetic information in it. If the genetic information in a cell varies a little bit, it can cause deformation. Many scientists have tried to combine chemicals and make living organisms, but no scientist has ever produced life. So, if we see a perfect creation of the universe, then there must me a creator behind it. If there is a design, then there must be a designer. I do not think that the universe came together automatically without a designer and made perfect living conditions are available for us.
Once an atheist and science student said in a internet message board, "Never have I encountered any reputable scientific fact that indicates that the earth is not more than 6000 years. I'm normally pretty accepting of people's ideas, but young-Earth theories are nothing more than deliberate ignorance."

But Vinod K. Isaac has discussed the problem of the big bang theory and the age of the earth, which is predicted as millions of years old, in his article, "Creation of Universe" (Published in "In Search of Peace" Magazine, first appeared in Vol. 5 / Issue 20 / November 29-2001)

"If you take any archeology magazine you will find that the oldest human skeleton found is only 10,000 years old; that is, by carbon dating method. Anybody said otherwise has been found to be a fraud. If Earth were billions of years old and dinosaur lived millions of years back, then today we would have seen a population explosion in such a way that there would have been millions of people in 1 square inch. Theoretically impossible!!

The only way to determine human skeleton's age is carbon dating method and carbon dating method does not work beyond 35000 years. And even where it seems to work there also it has problems because it is based upon radio active decay of C14 and C14 is formed by Sun light and absorbed by the plants. C14 is not formed in human being. Human beings get C14 by eating plants. So, originally humans do not have C14 and absence of C14 gives age in millions; do you see the contrast? What you see a skeleton 3.5 million years old and so on, it is not the age of the skeleton but the age of the rock that surrounds the skeleton. And this age is also based upon hypothesis. In other words, it is on an assumption of cooling of supernova. So, nothing are facts here, only assumptions or in other words daydreaming.

I still maintain that no human skeleton found over 10,000 years according to carbon dating system. And carbon dating is not reliable because of many reasons. I gave few reasons already. Other than that Carbon dating is reliable only if no other factor has played any role in Radioactive decay. And you know that radiation takes place in the earth every moment and anytime the radiation will cross the threshold level, it will cause decay more rapidly than we can imagine. There are many rivers already having heavy water and other radioactive elements because of nuclear power plants and so on. The bombardment of Alpha and Beta and other rays can make the decay thousands of times faster.
Secondly, every year we have an increase of surface level by about 0.5-2 inches due to dust rain. And if earth were billions of years old, then surface level would have been very high. Calculate the surface level by the rate of dust rain deposit and you will find that it is impossible to accommodate the billions of years' theory.

The population explosion is because of the fact that we have a steady percent of increase every century. If you draw a graph by the population verses years, you will see as if explosion of population happened only recently but if you draw a graph of percent growth and years you will see a steady increase. That means every century there is a certain percentage of increase. And when you make statistical calculations based on it you find that the origin of population goes only to about 4500 years back. So the evolution science talks about cannot happen. If there were 10,000 animals 3.5 million years back then, give me just 10000 animals in the whole world per generation and when I calculate how many skeletons we will have in 3.5 million years, gives me a figure that does not match with what we have in hand. Remember, just 10,000 I have said, in the whole world and 3.5 million not billions.

1. Calculate the percentage growth and find out what would have been the state.
2. If we take the accumulative total of all those animals how many skeletons we must have found? If you say that the rest is not preserved then what we have found are not in the shape to determine the age. Because we do not know through what stages the skeleton had gone before reaching to our hands.
So, it is not possible that this earth is millions of years old. "

The Bible describes how God marvelously created the universe, as we see in the first two chapters of the Bible and in many other scriptures. The Bible describes that God created heaven and earth, stars, sun, moon, trees, birds, animals etc., by His word. He spoke and it happened. The Bible tells us that His word has creative power. But God created man and woman differently. He did not create them by just speaking, but he took the dust of the earth and made them in His image and in His likeness. The Bible tells us that He breathed the breath of life in the nostril of Adam and he became a living soul.

Scientists have tried to create life in laboratory conditions, but they have failed. Even today, with all the modern equipment, life is still a mystery.
Yes, there is a designer who created whole universe, including you and me. He loves us and cares for us, and there is a purpose with which He created us. On this planet earth, He has kept us to know our creator and have fellowship with Him. We may walk with Him, and finally enter into eternity. If you have not yet known the purpose of your life, this is the day when you can discover the new world of blessings and happiness with almighty God by knowing Him personally.
Creation of Human beings

The Quran does not give a clear picture of how man was created, rather it confuses the issue. In different places, The Quran says different things; that man was created by "Water," "Blood Clot," "A drop of Thickening fluid," "Dust," etc. Let us look at a few verses from the Quran.

Created from Water:
The Criterion, The Standard Sura 25:54, "It is He Who has created man from water:"

The Prophets Sura 21:30, "We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"

Created from mere Blood Clot:
The Clot, Read! Sura 96:2, "Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood."

A drop of Thickening Fluid:
The Emissaries, Winds Sent Forth Sura 77:20, "Have We not created you from a fluid (held) despicable."

The Picktall translation says, The Bee Sura 16:4, "He hath created man from a drop of fluid."

Some translations calls it a "sperm drop," but the question is: where did this sperm drop came from when there was no human being?

From Dust:
The Romans, The Byzantines Sura 30:20, "Among His Signs is this, that He created you from dust."

But contrary to the Quran, the Bible gives a very clear picture of creation of human beings (Adam and Eve) that talks about advanced modern science. The Bible talks about the creation of man and woman in Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 2:21-23, as we read in Genesis 2:7, "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

Genesis 2:21-23, "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib that the LORD God had taken from man, He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'"
These four verses of the Bible talks about advanced medical science. Moses, who wrote Genesis around 1400 B.C almost 3500 years ago, while writing these things might not have fully understood the meaning of what he was writing.
He writes in Genesis 2:7 that God made man from dust of the ground. And Job, the oldest book of the Bible, says, in chapter 10, verses 9-12, "Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews? You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has preserved my spirit."

We read in the Bible that God took the clay, it seems God made a paste, poured it like milk and curdled like cheese. It seems God used a mold to make human beings. He allowed the clay paste to set in the mold.

Today, scientists agree that our body is made up of dust and water.
Then we read about the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-23, "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept."

We can see that God put him to sleep, or in other words, God gave him anesthesia as our modern doctors do so that patients may not feel the pain.
Then further we read, "and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man."

We read here a description of operation done in the body of Adam by God Himself as our doctors do today. God removed the rib from Adam's body and made into a woman. Why God took the rib, why not other parts of the body?
Recently I read one article, "Regenerating ribs -Adam and that 'missing' rib" by Carl Wieland, First published in: Creation Ex Nihilo 21(4):46-47, September - November 1999. In this article author talks about his experience - after having met with an accident he had to go through series of operations to reconstruct many parts of his body, particularly facial bones.

Carl Wieland writes in his article, "These operations often required using my own bone for grafting. I noticed that the plastic surgeon would keep going back to the right side of my ribcage, through the same horizontal scar, actually, to get more bone for these procedures. One day, I asked him why he hadn't 'run out of bone'. He looked at me blankly, and then explained that he and his team took the whole rib out, each time. 'We leave the periosteum intact, so the rib usually just grows right back again'.

"Despite having trained and practiced as a family doctor, I was intrigued; I had never realized this before. The periosteum (the literal meaning of this word is 'around the bone') is a membrane that covers every bone -- it's the reason you can get things stuck between your teeth while gnawing on a leg of lamb, for instance. The periosteum contains cells that can manufacture new bone. Particularly in young people, 'rib periosteum has a remarkable ability to regenerate bone, perhaps more so than any other bone'.

"Thoracic (chest) surgeons routinely remove ribs, and these often grow back, in whole or in part. A lot depends on the care with which the rib is removed; it needs to be 'peeled' out of its periosteum to leave this membrane as intact as possible. A major reason why the rib is the ideal situation for such regeneration is that the attached intercostal muscles provide it with a good blood supply."

How marvelously God created everything. God who is omniscient, who knows everything, knew it that from where He had to take bone for making Eve and it would not harm Adam.

Today medical science has discovered new technology called cloning of plants, animals and human beings. In this technology, scientists take a cell of a living organism and create a genetically identical copy. The original cell contains DNA that contains all the genetic information of that particular species. So, scientists can use one cell and make a copy or clone of living thing.

If a limited human being can clone or make a copy of a living creature, then how much more wonderfully can God make a copy of Adam? And He did it by taking a rib of Adam and by making it a woman.

I am sure that Moses was not aware of his writings containing high medical science. The psalmist says, in Psalm 139:14, "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well."

Yes, He made us wonderfully and marvelously. He knows that we are only dust. He loves us and cares for us. He wants to bless our lives as He blessed Adam and Eve.

How many Creators?

The Quran says, in Sura 23:14 and Sura 37:125 that Allah is "the Best of Creators," as we read in The Believers Sura 23:14, "Then fashioned We the drop a clot, then fashioned We the clot a little lump, then fashioned We the little lump bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators!"

Those Who Set the Ranks, Drawn Up in Ranks Sura 37:125, "Will ye cry unto Baal and forsake the Best of creators?"

But the Bible very clearly says that there is only ONE Creator, i.e. God Himself. We read in Isaiah 44:24, "Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: 'I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.'"
Creation and Shape of Earth

The Bible tells in three places about the shape of earth as circle, or God drew a circle on the face of the deep. Hebrew word for circle is chuwg {khoog} that means circle, circuit or compass. This Hebrew word is also used for sphere or round.

Solomon, who wrote Proverbs almost 3000 years back, writes the exact shape of the earth, as we read in Proverbs 8:27, "When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep,"

Isaiah, who wrote the book of Isaiah more than 2600 years back, says, in Isaiah 40:22, "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."

Job, the oldest book of the Bible that was written about 2000-1000 B.C. (4000-3000 years back), also gives the exact shape of the earth--i.e. round. We read in Job 22:14, "Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, and He walks above the circle of heaven." Not only that but Job also gives one step further information about the earth saying, "He hangs the earth on nothing," as we read in Job 26:7, "He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing."
The three different writers wrote the same thing in different time periods and gave the most accurate shape of the earth that was discovered by modern scientists only few centuries ago.

But contrary to the Bible, the Quran never mentions the round shape of the earth, but in many places, the Quran says that the earth is like a carpet--that is, a flat thing. In many places, Allah compares the earth with carpet.

Ta-ha, Sura 20:53, "He Who has, made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels); and has sent down water from the sky. With it have We produced diverse pairs of plants each separate from the others."

Noah, Sura 71:19, "'And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)."

Al-hijr, Stoneland, Rock City, Sura 15:19, "And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance."

So, we can see that the Quran, which was written almost 1500 years back, had no idea of the earth's shape.

Many people have claimed that according to the Bible, the shape of the earth is flat because The Bible says that earth has four ends and four corners. Osama Abdullah writes in his article, "The Bible says: The Earth is flat!" (Published in http://www.answering-christianity.com), "The Bible claims that Earth has four ends and four corners. Nobody can ever think a ball or a cycle to have corners and ends! Only flat items can have corners and ends, and this is exactly what the bible is trying to express regarding the shape of the earth. The earth is not flat, as once thought and it has no corners or ends at all. If Magnetic Poles can be taken as ends or corners of earth, then this definitely opposed to the axis of rotation."

Then he quoted few verses from the Bible to show that the Bible talks about "Four Corners."

Isaiah 11:12, "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH." (KJV)

But, of course, he is wrong. Even today we talk about four corners of the earth--North, South, East and West. It is speaking language. Just because speaking language is used, it does not make earth flat, as the Bible gives the exact shape of the earth.

Creation was done in Six days or in Eight days?

The Bible very clearly talks about the creation done in six normal days but the Quran confuses it by making it eight days.

We read in (signs) Spelled Out, Ha-mim Sura 41:9, "Say: Is it that ye deny Him Who created the earth in two Days? And do ye join equals with Him? He is the Lord of (all) the Worlds." Sura 41:10, "He set on the (earth), mountains standing firm, high above it, and bestowed blessings on the earth, and measure therein all things to give them nourishment in due proportion, in four Days, in accordance with (the needs of) those who seek (Sustenance)." Sura 41:11, "Moreover, He comprehended in His design the sky, and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth: 'Come ye together, willingly or unwillingly.' They said, 'We do come (together), in willing obedience.'" Sura 41:12, "So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge."
If Allah is full of knowledge, then why so much of confusion?

Sunset or Sunrise

Where does the sun go after sunset?

The Quran answers in Sad, (the Letter) Sad ( S ) 38:32, "And he said, "Truly do I love the love of good, with a view to the glory of my Lord,"- until (the sun) was hidden in the veil (of night)."

Further, the Quran says, in The Cave 18:86, "Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: 'O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness.'"

In the above verses, the Quran says that the "sun is hidden in the veil of night and sets in a spring of murky water" which clearly shows the lack of knowledge of Allah in this matter.

Further Hadith says, in Volume 4, Book 54, Number 421: - Beginning of Creation -
Narrated Abu Dhar
The Prophet asked me at sunset, "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: "And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term (decreed). that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All-Knowing" (36.38).
Again, we read in Hadith Volume 6, Book 60, Number 326: - Prophetic Commentary on the Qur'an (Tafseer of the Prophet (pbuh)) -

Narrated Abu Dharr
Once I was with the Prophet in the mosque at the time of sunset. The Prophet said, "O Abu Dharr! Do you know where the sun sets?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know best." He said, "It goes and prostrates underneath (Allah's) Throne; and that is Allah's Statement."And the sun runs on its fixed course for a term (decreed). And that is the decree of All-Mighty, the All-Knowing."(36.38)
In an article, "The Quest for Truth," [Secular Philosophy of MohaGuru Aroj Ali Matubbar] published inhttp://humanists.net/avijit/aroj_ali/quest_for_truth_1.html says, "But we have no idea about the exact location of the throne. However, we are told that the sun spends the whole night there in prayer and rises in the east at dawn."

And Hadith says about the sunrise:
Volume 4, Book 54, Number 494:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
Allah's Apostle said, "When the (upper) edge of the sun appears (in the morning), don't perform a prayer till the sun appears in full, and when the lower edge of the sun sets, don't perform a prayer till it sets completely. And you should not seek to pray at sunrise or sunset for the sun rises between two sides of the head of the devil (or Satan)."

Does not these verses clearly say that Allah does not know where the sun goes at the time of sunset? Not only that, the above verses very clearly says that sun runs on its fixed course that is scientifically incorrect. It was written because they had no knowledge of sun going other side.

Rainbow

Muslims say that, "There was no rainbow before Noah's time" (Gen 9:11-17).

The Answer is, True. According to the Bible, there was no rain before the time of Noah. Genesis 2:5-6, "There were no plants or grain growing on the earth, for the LORD God had not sent any rain. And no one was there to cultivate the soil. But water came up out of the ground and watered all the land. And if there were no rain clouds."

It is believed that at the time of flood, rain came first time on the earth. And if there were no rain clouds then it was not possible that rainbow can be formed or seen. So, the Bible account is not wrong but gives accurate information.