THE MOVING MOUNTAIN

"And you see the mountains, you thought he was still in place, when he walked in the way of clouds." [Qur'an 27:88]
14 centuries ago the people thought that the mountain still. But in the Qur'an mentioned that moves mountains.

Mountains movement is caused by the movement of the earth's crust where they are. The crust was like floating on a layer of magma that is more tightly. In the early 20th century, for the first time in history, a German scientist named Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents on the surface of the earth together in the early days of the earth, but then shifted toward different, so separate as they move together away.
The geologist Wegener understand the truth of the statement until the year 1980, ie 50 years after his death. As been proposed by Wegener in an article published in 1915, about 500 million years ago the mainland is in the earth's surface is a unit originally called Pangea. It is located on the mainland south pole.

Around 180 million years ago, Pangea split into two parts, each moving in different directions. One of the land or is a giant continent Gondwana, which included Africa, Australia, Antarctica and India. The second is a giant continent Laurasia, which consisted of Europe, North America and Asia, excluding India. Over 150 years after this separation, Gondwana and Laurasia divided into lands smaller.

The continents that formed following the parting of Pangea has moved to the Earth's surface continuously as long as several centimeters per year. This incident also caused extensive changes in the ratio between land and ocean areas on Earth.

The movement of the Earth's crust is found after a geological study conducted in the early 20th century. The scientists explain these events as follows:
Crust and the outer portion of the magma, with a thickness of about 100 km, divided into segments called plates. There are six major plates and several small plates. According to the theory called plate tectonics, these plates move on the surface of the earth, carrying continents and ocean floor with him. The movement of continents has been measured and the speed of 1 to 5 cm per year. Plates are constantly moving, and make changes to the geography of the earth slowly. Every year, for example, the Atlantic Ocean becomes slightly wider. (Carolyn Sheets, Robert Gardner, Samuel F. Howe; General Science, Allyn and Bacon Inc.. Newton, Massachusetts, 1985, s. 30)

There are very important things that need to be presented here: in the verse Allah has mentioned about the movement of the mountain as the clouds mengapungnya trip. (Today, modern scientists also use the term "continental drift" or "floating movement of the continent" for this movement. (National Geographic Society, Powers of Nature, Washington DC, 1978, s.12-13)

No question, is one Kejaiban Qur'an that this scientific fact, a recently discovered by scientists, has been revealed in the Qur'an.
"And we have the winds to marry, and We sent down rain from the sky and we give you water at all times, and you are not a store." (The Qur'an, 15:22)

MIRACLES OF THE QUR'AN AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Presumably true if the Qur'an is called a miracle. How not, it turns out the verses of the Qur'an revealed in the 7th century BC in which science has not developed (at the time people thought the earth was flat and the sun around the earth), in accordance with modern science recently discovered by humans.

For example the verse below:
"And if the people who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth were a coherent, then we separate between the two. And We made from water every living thing. Will they not also believe? "[Al-Anbiya: 30]

When the people no one knew that the heavens and the earth were originally one. It turned out that modern science such as the Big Bang theory states that the universe (earth and sky) was once one. Then finally broke into this now.

Then it was all the dead, including single-celled plants must contain water and also need water. The presence of water is an indication of the existence of life on a planet. Without water, no life impossible. This is one truth verses of the Qur'an.

When referring to the sun and moon in the Qur'an, emphasized that each moves in orbit or a particular orbit.

"It is He Who created the night and day, sun and moon. Each of them is circulating in an orbit. "(The Qur'an, 21:33)

It is also mentioned in another verse that the sun is not quiet, but moves in a certain orbit:
"And the sun runs to its resting place. Such provisions, the Mighty, the Knower. "(The Qur'an, 36:38)
Langit Yang Expands (Expanding Universe)

In the Qur'an, which was revealed 14 centuries ago when the science of astronomy was still primitive, the expansion of the universe is described as follows:

"And the sky We built with the power (We) and We really meluaskannya." (The Qur'an, 51:47)
According to the Qur'an sky extended / expanded. And this is the conclusion reached by contemporary science.

Ever since the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding continuously with the speed maha great. The scientists likened the expansion of the universe of events with the surface of a balloon being blown up.

Until the early 20th century, the only view which is generally believed in the world of science is that the universe is permanent and has existed since ancient times without a beginning. However, research, observations, and calculations are done with modern technology, reveals that the real universe had a beginning, and he was constantly "expands".

In the early 20th century, Russian physicist, Alexander Friedmann, and cosmologists Belgium, George Lemaitre, calculated theoretically and found that the universe is constantly moving and expanding.

This fact is proved also by using observational data in 1929. While observing the sky with a telescope, Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, discovered that the stars and galaxies moving away from each other.