WONDERS OF GOD’S CREATION: DUALITY IN CREATION “Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them.” ( #Quran, 36:36) While male and female is equivalent to the concept of pair, things unknown to them, as expressed in the Quran, bears a broader meaning. Indeed, we encounter one of the meanings pointed to in the verse in the present day. The British physicist Paul #Dirac , who discovered that matter was created in pairs, won the #Nobel Prize for #Physics in 1933. This finding, known as parity, revealed the duality known as matter and anti- matter. Anti-matter bears the opposite characteristics to matter. For instance, contrary to matter, anti-matter electrons are positive and protons negative. This fact is expressed in a scientific source as follows: ... every particle has its antiparticle of opposite charge… [T]he uncertainty relation tells us that pair #creation and pair annihilation happen in the vacuum at all times, in all places [1]. Another example of duality in creation is plants. Botanists discovered that there is a gender distinction in plants some 100 years ago [2]. The Qur’an draws our attention to this wonder of #God’s creation: “It is Allah Who created the heavens with no support-you can see them-and cast firmly embedded mountains on the earth so that it would not move under you, and scattered about in it creatures of every kind. And We send down water from the sky and make every generous plant grow in it, in pairs.” (Quran, 31:10) “It is He Who made the earth a cradle for you and threaded pathways for you through it and sent down water from the sky by which We have brought forth diverse pairs of plants.” (Quran, 20:53) Surely such creation could not have been by #chance.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:10:28 +0000
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