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How Hubble Killed God?? No it proved Him!

First of all this is hardly the type of post I write in my blog, which are mostly technical and technology oriented, but today on Wordpress this particular article "How Hubble Killed God" became popular and I think it could decieve people, so I decided to write a counter-article saying how it infact proved that He exists.

The Hubble Telescope, is named after Edwin Hubble, the american astronomer who proved the redshifting of galaxies far far away. White Light as we know it is a mixture of colors, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we humans can see, if an object is moving away from an observer the light which comes from that objects directions increases in wavelength, and thus the frequency is reduced thus light shifts towards the red side of the spectrum. Hubble proved that the light from the galaxies was redshifted which means they were moving away, this led credence to the "Big Bang" theory, which replaced the Steady State theory of the 1800s. Observations from the Hubble telescope further proved the red-shifting, and thus the Big Bang theory is the established theory of the Universe now.

But wait! Is it really new? The Holy Quran, the holiest Book of Islam, which is the Word of God, and was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in around 600 AD in 20+ years says:

"Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass (ratqan), then We clove them asunder (fataqna)? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"

Now we know from Einstein that Mass and Energy are interchangeable from his famous E=mc^2 Equation so that closed up mass the Holy Quran mentions could be the energy from which the universe was created. Indeed modern cosmologists believe that it is the colliding of matter and anti matter which could have produced the gigantic energies to create the universe. So the the above verse from the Holy Quran clearly proves that Universe indeed started with a Bang, call it the Big Bang. This was in 600s AD . It was not untill early 1900s some 1300 years later that people realized that the Quran was right.

The Quran also supports the redshifting theory of Hubble in :

"And the heaven We built with Our own powers (aydin) and indeed We go on expanding it (musi'un)."

The Hubble Telescope has been credited with finding Black holes. Many scientists doubt that such a thing exists, but there should be no doubt, as the Quran mentions it.The Holy Quran also proves the existence of Black Holes, which have preoccupied cosmologists during the last decades:

"Remember the day when We shall roll up the heavens like the rolling up of written scrolls .."

Cosmologists speculate that a mass of accretion from space falling into a black hole, as described above, would be pressed into a sheet under the enormous pressure created by the gravitational and electromagnetic forces. As the centre of the black hole is constantly revolving around itself, the singularity, this sheet—as it approaches—will begin to be wrapped around it, before disappearing into the realm of the unknown.

Now to the original article, at one point the author says

" If God or Allah created all of this, He did so an incredibly long time ago. If Man is the reason for Creation, why has intelligent Man’s existence only been for the last few thousand years? If Time since creation was a kilometre long piece of rope, intelligent Man is represented only by the last half-CENTIMETRE. If Man is the purpose of creation, why did it take so long to create Man? "

Man certainly was NOT the reason for Creation of the Universe according to the Holy Quran, so again if the author believes that the Universe according to observed evidence is soo old, and the earth so young, God must not exist??? Wait a second!

The Quran narrates the story of the apple which got Prophet Adam and Eve thrown out of Heaven onto the Earth,

" Remember when your Lord said to the angels: 'Verily, I am going to place mankind generations after generations on earth.' They said: 'Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood, while we glorify You with praises and thanks (exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners) and sanctify You.' Allah said: 'I know that which you do not know.'"

So the above verse from the Holy Quran, shows that Earth existed before God created Adam, which means that the Earth and the Universe are supposed to be older than Humanity! One interesting fact is that, I heard from a renowned Islamic Scholar, is that the Earth was already inhabited when Prophet Adam was sent to it. It was inhabited by a species called the "Jinn", which are creatures made from fire. They still exist today, people may find it incredible, but I'm sure some scientists will prove that they indeed exist.

I could write on and on about this, but it should be clear to anyone, that if anything Hubble has proved is that God exists, and it has proved that the Holy Quran is indeed His word. And it should be clear to anyone that atleast in Islam there is NO clash between science and Religion! It is just so sad to see, that Muslims are not in the forefront of research and scientific progress, this is primarily due to lack of education, most, nearly all I think muslim countries have very high illitracy rates! Even in Pakistan, people just read the Holy Quran, and they dont understand a word in it, because it is in Arabic, although localized translations exist very few have access to it. Because of the illitracy people tend to be gullible and easily believe rogue mullah who twist the teachings of Islam, this has led to things like Al-Qaeda which use religion for primarily political aims! Had there been more education and more awareness I think Al-Qaeda would be non-existant and the only place where the Muslims would be competing with the rest of the world would be in scientific progress.