The Debate

The debate between religions and science has taken a long time and consumed scientific and religious efforts. Each side has its own evidences and they are all strong. But if you look at them with your attention, you will find that there is no clash between them! I mean science supports religion and, on the other side, religion supports science.

It is clear in my religion - Islam - that whatever is mentioned in Qur'an (The Holy Book) must be correct. Even if it is unbelievable these days, it will be a fact in the future. That because we - Muslims - believe that Qur'an was written by Allah (God), and he, undoubtedly, knows everything in the universe because he created it. At the current moment, you may be thinking about some facts that are mentioned in Qur'an, don't hie. I will go through some facts that might make you think about them for the whole year. Let's start from the moon. It is written in Qur'an 1400 years ago that the moon was bisected into two parts and they were joined together again. Believe it or not, recently, NASA discovered that miraculous fact and they called it The Lunar Rill. In the moon also, Qur'an tells us that the moon was converted many times until it became like the old died trunk, which means there is no water on it. As scientists says, no life without water. So, we can infer that there is no life on the moon, as astronomy stated last century. It deserves an hour of thinking about it, doesn't it?

Moving from the moon to the sea, as Allah said in Qur'an: "He has let free the two bodies of the flowing water meeting together, Between them is a barrier which they don't transgress." I want you to recall those beautiful sea pictures from the sky with the amazing colored parts. Can you see the barriers between the different colored water parts? In 1876, Geologists discovered that those colors refer to different water temperatures and salt proportions, and as a result, different water characteristics. The miracle is that even though two or more of the different water parts meet, they never mix! It deserves a day of thinking about it, doesn't it?

The fetus, the complicated start of the human beings, was mentioned in a scientific way in Qur'an. It mentioned that the creation of a human being is accomplished through many stages, starting with the sperm as Allah said: "Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay), then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm, in a place of rest, firmly fixed." And He said in another place: "He makes you in the wombs of your mothers, in stages one after another, in three walls of darkness." Scientist discovered the fact of those stages of developing and growing just in 1960's. It means that the fact which man came to know since sixty years ago had been mentioned in the Holy Qur'an fourteen centuries ago. It deserves