Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then We separated them?..
[Noble Quran 21:30]
Professor Alfred Kroner is one of the world's well-known geologists. He is a Professor of the Department of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany. He said, "Thinking where Muhammad came from .. I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advance technological methods that this is the case."
Also he said, "Somebody who did not know something about
nuclear physics fourteen hundred years ago could not, I think, be in a
position to find out from his own mind, for instance, that the earth and
the heavens had the same origin."
Scientific research describes the creation and formation of the earth in the following stages:
Differentiation
in the first few 100's of millions of years led to the formation of the
core and the mantle and a crust, and initiated the escape of gases from
the moving interior that eventually led to the formation of the
atmosphere and oceans.
The earliest Earth was probably an unsorted conglomeration, mostly of silicon compounds, iron and magnesium oxides, and smaller amounts of all the natural elements. It became increasingly hotter as the protoplanet grew.
...After loss of the hydrogen, helium and other hydrogen-containing gases from early Earth due to the Sun's radiation, primitive Earth was devoid of an atmosphere. The first atmosphere was formed by outgassing of gases trapped in the interior of the early Earth, which still goes on today in volcanoes.
For the Early Earth, extreme volcanism occurred during differentiation, when massive heating and fluid-like motion in the mantle occurred. It is likely that the bulk of the atmosphere was derived from degassing early in the Earth's history.
...Lava flowing from the partially molten interior spread over the surface and solidified to form a thin crust. This crust would have melted and solidified repeatedly, with the lighter compounds moving to the surface. This is called differentiation. Weathering by rainfall broke up and altered the rocks. The end result of these processes was a continental land mass, which would have grown over time. The most popular theory limits the growth of continents to the first two billion years of the Earth. (SOURCE)
The
above description informs us that the earth was initially one mass and
through differentiation and volcanic out-gassing, the early atmosphere
formed. Then, cooling of the earth resulted in the formation of land
mass.
These descriptions concur with the Qur'anic description that the earth (2:29) and the heaven (79:27) were originally one mass and then separated (verse 21:30), the heavens were then developed into seven layers ( the lowest is our observable universe (verse 2:29) and the earth's crust was later spread out and the final shape was determined (79:30).
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