Index:
1- Debate over Earth Age
2- Scientific Calendar
3- Islamic Calendar
4- Biblical Calendar
5- The 7,000 Years period !!
6- Lessons Learned
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1- Debate over Earth Age
We spoke before about universe creation and said that each of universal days was equal to 2 billion years as per Quranic calendar.When I was going to write about Earth formation according to Islamic references from Quran and Hadith (Prophet’s Sayings), I discovered that they don’t match in time period with science findings but they match in order.
According to Quran, Earth creation started on day 1, means between last 14-12 billion years period, but scientists say that it’s since 4.5 billion years only, and this according to their age measurements on oldest stone that they were able to test (3km depth).
I was going to stop here and move to Earth attributes, but after some research, I discovered 4 astonishing facts
1- Recent finding by NASA: that the first stars were few million years after the Big bang and some stayed for few hundred millions years before they switched OFF.
1- Recent finding by NASA: that the first stars were few million years after the Big bang and some stayed for few hundred millions years before they switched OFF.
Quoted from WMAP project by NASA:
[Another breakthrough derived from WMAP data is clear evidence the first stars took more than a half-billion years to create a cosmic fog.
Credit: WMAP Science Team "We now have evidence that the creation of this fog was a drawn-out process, starting when the universe was about 400 million years old and lasting for half a billion years," said WMAP team member Joanna Dunkley of the University of Oxford in the U.K. and Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. "These measurements are currently possible only with WMAP.”] [1]
This fact matches with Islamic facts that Earth, Sun, Moon, were shining stars (burning planets) before the Earth and later on the moon were cooled down, therefore the start of Earth could be as early as the 14-13 billion year period.
