Signs of the Quran - Astronomy

People at the time when the Quran was revealed, recited, commemorated and written down could not have understood such high numbers as billions of years. The Arabic word for day, joum, is flexible in length and describes a period of circulation. Time is measured by movement (The Solar System, Motion). It is relative and varies in space and with changing speed as postulated in the Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the 20th Century. The varying character of time was revealed by the creator of the universe 1400 years ago in the Quran. The joum-al-achirah, the last day, is described in the Quran as 1000 years long and a day in the sight or presence of God as 50000 years.

Therefore, the term day is treated as flexible. The equation above (Universe and Space, Age) of 2 to 7 is a comparison to one week and the age of the universe and the earth are given. The seventh day can be seen as a day of rest, as in the Bible, but of course the divine creator would not rest but watch, guard, take account and be there to hear the prayers. The statement about the creation of heavens and earth and all between them in 6 days is made exactly 7 times in the Quran (S:57:4; S50:38; S32:4; S25:59; S11:7; S10:3; S7:54). 4 Billion years of scientific measurement, 2 days in the Quran, are exactly the time that the formation of the atmosphere and different other geological formations took and 2 billion years, the last day of the week, is the time that the evolution from microbe or unicellular bacteria to higher primate took.

Scientists divide the evolution of the universe into three different stages. Firstly, the physical evolution in which the formation of the atoms took place out of smaller particles inside the gas masses and plasma of the Supernovae (giant distant stars, see Universe development). Secondly, the chemical evolution in which molecules formed out of these atoms and showered down on planets in meteors (see Universe and Life, elements), like Fe/iron, O2/oxygen and H2O/water. The third stage is biological (, see Biology 1), during which these molecules formed the atmospheres of the planets and macromolecules (large molecules, DNA and proteins). Herewith life and organisms could evolve on planet earth. There is a certain equation in thermodynamics which states that the amount of disorder is getting less in the universe as it is expanding so that matter can crystallise and organise in form of order and information. Thus intelligent life and technology become possible and increase with time, a natural law of physics set by the creator, originator and evolver of the universe, matter and life.