"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.
Harun Yahya
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The Size of the Earth
When people stand up and begin walking, they feel no pressure in an upward or downward direction. Sitting, walking, and running are exceedingly mundane activities. Yet each time people engage in such activities, they are completely unaware that they are resisting a very powerful gravitational force.
The most important reason for this is the size of Earth. If it were just slightly smaller, gravity would be far weaker, the planet’s atmosphere would fragment and disappear, and we would be unable to remain stable in the world. If the Earth were larger, gravity would increase considerably and various poisonous gases would make our atmosphere lethal. Even if we managed to protect ourselves from these gasses, we would be unable to move.
Yet such a problem never arises, because Earth’s size has been determined in a manner that makes human life possible. The conditions that combine are so delicate that there is no way even one of them could have come about by chance. Scientists have calculated the odds of such an event as 1 in 10123.1 Clearly, the accidental formation of an environment suited to life is impossible.
Were Allah willed so, He could make each star and planet suitable for life, arrange matters so that human beings had no need to eat or drink, breathe gasses in specific proportions, or gravity or the Sun. But Allah, Who created all that exists, willed to bring together all of the astonishingly detailed conditions necessary for life to remind people that He created and controls everything and to give us the opportunity to appreciate His infinite might and turn to Him:
He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and Earth belongs. He does not have a son, and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Surat al-Furqan, 2)
The most important reason for this is the size of Earth. If it were just slightly smaller, gravity would be far weaker, the planet’s atmosphere would fragment and disappear, and we would be unable to remain stable in the world. If the Earth were larger, gravity would increase considerably and various poisonous gases would make our atmosphere lethal. Even if we managed to protect ourselves from these gasses, we would be unable to move.
Yet such a problem never arises, because Earth’s size has been determined in a manner that makes human life possible. The conditions that combine are so delicate that there is no way even one of them could have come about by chance. Scientists have calculated the odds of such an event as 1 in 10123.1 Clearly, the accidental formation of an environment suited to life is impossible.
Were Allah willed so, He could make each star and planet suitable for life, arrange matters so that human beings had no need to eat or drink, breathe gasses in specific proportions, or gravity or the Sun. But Allah, Who created all that exists, willed to bring together all of the astonishingly detailed conditions necessary for life to remind people that He created and controls everything and to give us the opportunity to appreciate His infinite might and turn to Him:
He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and Earth belongs. He does not have a son, and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Surat al-Furqan, 2)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The miracle of the Sun
The Sun is the largest body in the Solar System. It is exceedingly hot and consists of burning gases. Explosions like millions of atom bombs going off take place the whole time on its surface. These explosions throw up giant flames 40 or 50 times bigger than our Earth.
The Sun is like a huge ball of fire that gives off enormous heat and light from its surface. Space, however, is pitch black. Our Earth is a heavenly body in that blackness. And, no other heavenly body in that darkness apart from the Sun can warm and brighten our Earth. Were it not for the Sun, it would be permanent night, and everywhere would be covered in ice. Life would therefore be impossible, and we would not exist.
The heat given off by the Sun is very high during the summer. And yet, the Sun is millions of kilometers away from the Earth, and only 0.2 percent of the heat it gives off actually reaches the Earth. Since temperatures on Earth can be so high, even though the Sun is so far away, what can the temperature on the Sun itself be like?
The temperature on the surface of the Sun is 6,000 degrees Celsius, and 12 million degrees Celsius inside it.
Allah has created the perfect distance between the Earth and the Sun. If the Sun were just a little bit closer to us, then everything on Earth would dry up and burn. However, if it were any further away, then everything would be covered in ice. Either way, of course, life would be impossible.
Polar regions, which receive less heat from the Sun, are permanently covered in ice, while Equatorial regions, which receive more, are always hot. However, this difference in temperature between the Poles and the Equator leads to a moderate climate on the Earth as a whole, and thus to a climate capable of supporting life. This is one of the countless signs of Allah’s love for us. If He had not created the ideal distance between the Sun and the Earth, life on Earth would have been impossible.
If the Sun were any larger or any smaller, or if it were any closer to or any further away from the Earth, it would be impossible to live on our planet.
However, Allah has created the Sun, the Earth, and the order in the Solar System in just such a way as to allow us to live in comfort. Another verse from the Qur’an tells us how the Sun and the Moon are always moving at Allah’s command:
He has made night and day subservient to you, and the Sun and Moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly signs in that for people who use their intellect. (Surat an-Nahl, 12)
The Sun is like a huge ball of fire that gives off enormous heat and light from its surface. Space, however, is pitch black. Our Earth is a heavenly body in that blackness. And, no other heavenly body in that darkness apart from the Sun can warm and brighten our Earth. Were it not for the Sun, it would be permanent night, and everywhere would be covered in ice. Life would therefore be impossible, and we would not exist.
The heat given off by the Sun is very high during the summer. And yet, the Sun is millions of kilometers away from the Earth, and only 0.2 percent of the heat it gives off actually reaches the Earth. Since temperatures on Earth can be so high, even though the Sun is so far away, what can the temperature on the Sun itself be like?
The temperature on the surface of the Sun is 6,000 degrees Celsius, and 12 million degrees Celsius inside it.
Allah has created the perfect distance between the Earth and the Sun. If the Sun were just a little bit closer to us, then everything on Earth would dry up and burn. However, if it were any further away, then everything would be covered in ice. Either way, of course, life would be impossible.
Polar regions, which receive less heat from the Sun, are permanently covered in ice, while Equatorial regions, which receive more, are always hot. However, this difference in temperature between the Poles and the Equator leads to a moderate climate on the Earth as a whole, and thus to a climate capable of supporting life. This is one of the countless signs of Allah’s love for us. If He had not created the ideal distance between the Sun and the Earth, life on Earth would have been impossible.
If the Sun were any larger or any smaller, or if it were any closer to or any further away from the Earth, it would be impossible to live on our planet.
However, Allah has created the Sun, the Earth, and the order in the Solar System in just such a way as to allow us to live in comfort. Another verse from the Qur’an tells us how the Sun and the Moon are always moving at Allah’s command:
He has made night and day subservient to you, and the Sun and Moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly signs in that for people who use their intellect. (Surat an-Nahl, 12)
Friday, December 24, 2010
The new shield protecting the earth
The new shield protecting the earth
Earth’s Space Storm Shield
Recent reseach about space reveal new scientific discoveries presenting that our Earth and the universe are created from nothing. New observations from a NASA spacecraft revealed that the Earth’s outer athmosphere acts like a heat shield by absorbing energy from space storms.
Scientific observations reveal that a layer in the Earth’s outer atmosphere acts like a shield by absorbing energy from space storms which reduces their ability to heat the lower athmosphere. This way this layer fulfills a mission of vital importance for the survival of life on Earth.
However, it imposes a heavy toll for its services by creating a billion-degree cloud of electrified gas, or plasma, that surrounds our planet. The plasma cloud is so ferociously hot, its particles act like radiation, occasionally disrupting satellites in mid to high orbits.
Although past space missions gave provisional evidence for this behavior, IMAGE (NASA's Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) provides the first global picture of the active role Earth's ionosphere plays in space storms, which is very different from the earlier view that the solar wind itself supplied the energetic particles responsible for these storms.
Space shield in action
The Earth's space storm shield is a tenuous layer of the outer atmosphere (outer ionosphere) between 300-1,000 kilometers high that includes electrically charged atoms. "Just as a heat shield sacrifices itself by allowing its outer layers to slough off during the fiery reentry of a spacecraft, Earth's shield absorbs space storm energy by throwing some of its charged particles into space," said Stephen Fuselier of the Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif., who is lead author of the first of two papers on this discovery to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Our world is protected from space storms by this miraculous system based on extremly delicate balances. This special system surely did not come into existence by itself. It is our All Mighty Allah Who created this perfect system in the universe.
Another threat the storm shield protects us from is the sun winds. These winds that blow with 400 kps are made up of electrically charged particles that rapidly pass through the Earth’s magnetic field. During this voyage a tremendous electric current of millions of ampers come into being. This electric current moves towards the magnetic field lines which are invisible to the eye and, especially on the polar regions, trillions of watt of energy are pumped to the athmosphere.
In the absence of storm shield of the Earth, this heat coming from a huge electric current would render life on Earth impossible. The magnetic field of the world prevents the direct striking of sun winds to our atmosphere and the erosions that occur in time.
By means of the unique system our Lord creates the sun winds strike magnetosphere and enclose our planet. These explosions reach a greater speed and density with the explosions in the Sun and the force of the collision attain even greater dimensions with the contribution of space storms. Our Earth that is exposed to this intense storm bombardment is protected by means of this shield, which is one of the proofs of Allah’s superior creation.
The Skies are a protected ceiling
The protective structure of the atmosphere may not occur to the mind of the majority of people who look at the heavens. However our atmosphere acts almost as a conscious being that struggles to protect our world. All scientific observations affirm that life on Earth is protected by this feature of the atmosphere. This in turn shows us that with its flawless creation, Allah gave the atmosphere to our service.
Another point that deserves mention here is the fact that this perfect system Allah created in the atmosphere is also proclaimed in the Qur’an. In one verse of the Qur’an Allah relates this important feature of the atmosphere which is discovered by the technology of the 21st century:
We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our Signs. (Surat al-Anbiya’: 32)
Another important feature of the atmosphere is its system of reflecting.
The two outermost layers of the atmosphere are the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Ionosphere reflects the radio waves coming from the Earth back to the Earth and ensures that broadcasts are received from far distances. Magnetosphere, on the other hand, collects the harmful radioactive particles emanating from the Sun and other stars and send them back to the space before reaching the Earth. All these reveal that there is a very perfect system of reflection in the atmosphere.
That the best environment is laid for the survival of life on Earth is a proof of Allah’s flawless and harmonious creation. In the Qur’an Allah states that He is the Owner of everything in the world and everything submits to Him. In the Surat al-Baqara Allah relates thus:
No, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him (Surat al-Baqara, 116-117)
Earth’s Space Storm Shield
Recent reseach about space reveal new scientific discoveries presenting that our Earth and the universe are created from nothing. New observations from a NASA spacecraft revealed that the Earth’s outer athmosphere acts like a heat shield by absorbing energy from space storms.
Scientific observations reveal that a layer in the Earth’s outer atmosphere acts like a shield by absorbing energy from space storms which reduces their ability to heat the lower athmosphere. This way this layer fulfills a mission of vital importance for the survival of life on Earth.
However, it imposes a heavy toll for its services by creating a billion-degree cloud of electrified gas, or plasma, that surrounds our planet. The plasma cloud is so ferociously hot, its particles act like radiation, occasionally disrupting satellites in mid to high orbits.
Although past space missions gave provisional evidence for this behavior, IMAGE (NASA's Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) provides the first global picture of the active role Earth's ionosphere plays in space storms, which is very different from the earlier view that the solar wind itself supplied the energetic particles responsible for these storms.
Space shield in action
The Earth's space storm shield is a tenuous layer of the outer atmosphere (outer ionosphere) between 300-1,000 kilometers high that includes electrically charged atoms. "Just as a heat shield sacrifices itself by allowing its outer layers to slough off during the fiery reentry of a spacecraft, Earth's shield absorbs space storm energy by throwing some of its charged particles into space," said Stephen Fuselier of the Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif., who is lead author of the first of two papers on this discovery to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Our world is protected from space storms by this miraculous system based on extremly delicate balances. This special system surely did not come into existence by itself. It is our All Mighty Allah Who created this perfect system in the universe.
Another threat the storm shield protects us from is the sun winds. These winds that blow with 400 kps are made up of electrically charged particles that rapidly pass through the Earth’s magnetic field. During this voyage a tremendous electric current of millions of ampers come into being. This electric current moves towards the magnetic field lines which are invisible to the eye and, especially on the polar regions, trillions of watt of energy are pumped to the athmosphere.
In the absence of storm shield of the Earth, this heat coming from a huge electric current would render life on Earth impossible. The magnetic field of the world prevents the direct striking of sun winds to our atmosphere and the erosions that occur in time.
By means of the unique system our Lord creates the sun winds strike magnetosphere and enclose our planet. These explosions reach a greater speed and density with the explosions in the Sun and the force of the collision attain even greater dimensions with the contribution of space storms. Our Earth that is exposed to this intense storm bombardment is protected by means of this shield, which is one of the proofs of Allah’s superior creation.
The Skies are a protected ceiling
The protective structure of the atmosphere may not occur to the mind of the majority of people who look at the heavens. However our atmosphere acts almost as a conscious being that struggles to protect our world. All scientific observations affirm that life on Earth is protected by this feature of the atmosphere. This in turn shows us that with its flawless creation, Allah gave the atmosphere to our service.
Another point that deserves mention here is the fact that this perfect system Allah created in the atmosphere is also proclaimed in the Qur’an. In one verse of the Qur’an Allah relates this important feature of the atmosphere which is discovered by the technology of the 21st century:
We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they turn away from Our Signs. (Surat al-Anbiya’: 32)
Another important feature of the atmosphere is its system of reflecting.
The two outermost layers of the atmosphere are the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Ionosphere reflects the radio waves coming from the Earth back to the Earth and ensures that broadcasts are received from far distances. Magnetosphere, on the other hand, collects the harmful radioactive particles emanating from the Sun and other stars and send them back to the space before reaching the Earth. All these reveal that there is a very perfect system of reflection in the atmosphere.
That the best environment is laid for the survival of life on Earth is a proof of Allah’s flawless and harmonious creation. In the Qur’an Allah states that He is the Owner of everything in the world and everything submits to Him. In the Surat al-Baqara Allah relates thus:
No, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him (Surat al-Baqara, 116-117)
Friday, December 17, 2010
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.
Harun Yahya
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.
Harun Yahya
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