The Creation Of The Universe [Paperback]

Harun Yahya (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2000

Ruling over the world of science in the 19th century, the materialist philosophy had proposed that the universe is an uncontrolled heap of matter that existed since infinite time. The discoveries made in the 20th century, however, entirely refuted this materialist claim.

Today, science has proven that the universe had a beginning, that is, it was created from nothing. With this beginning called the Big Bang, both matter and time were created from nothing. Moreover, all physical balances of the universe from the rate of the explosion (Big Bang), to the values of the four basic forces of physics, from the nuclear reactions in stars to the structure of atom, are tailored to support human life. The physical and chemical properties of atoms such as carbon and oxygen, or molecules such as water are ordered to make human life possible. Shortly put, there is no room for coincidence in the universe. The entire universe is created according to a certain purpose and in a glorious equilibrium, harmony and order.

This is the exalted and flawless creation of God, the Lord of All the Worlds.

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About the Author

The author has written over 100 books, under the pen-name Harun Yahya, on faith-related topics and on the signs of God in the universe. His articles appear in many magazines/papers all over the world. Some of his books have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, Turki, Tatar and Urdu, and some have been published in the countries concerned. All Harun Yahya's books appeal to all people, regardless of their age, race, and nationality. Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental in many people gaining a deeper insight into their faith. The wisdom, and the sincere and easy-to-understand style employed give these books a distinct touch which directly strikes any one who reads or examines them.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Al-Attique (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189426438X
• ISBN-13: 978-1894264389
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,634,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar writes his books under the pen name of Harun Yahya. He is a world-renowned man of ideas. Ever since his university years, he has dedicated his life to telling of the existence and oneness of Almighty Allah, to disseminating the moral values of the Qur'an, to the intellectual defeat of materialist and atheist ideologies, to propagating the real Ataturk way and to defending the permanence of the state and the unity of the nation. He has never wavered in the face of difficulties and despite oppression from materialist, Darwinist and separatist circles, still continues this intellectual struggle today exhibiting great patience and determination.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not so finely tuned., November 7, 2006

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Vincent Sauve (Oakland CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Creation Of The Universe (Paperback)

In Harun Yahya's The Creation of the Universe various arguments are made, arguments derived from physical considerations, regarding the purported "fine tuning" and great improbability of our universe being the way it is by chance. The author always leads the reader toward Allah as being the necessary agent for making a universe that is supposedly fine-tuned for us.

Moslem creationists, like many Christian creationists, are not necessarily averse to knowledge brought about by modern science. They will embrace aspects of science that seem like a good argument and with a very creative reading of the Bible, or Qur'an, in this case, attempt to show the compatibility of both.

In reality, the universe we live in is not conducive to widespread human life. Why should a Creator create such a vast universe, where in vastly more than 99.999% of the universe our life would perish because of cold, heat, radiation, lack of drinking water, air, food, land to live on, et cetera. Rather than this being a universe specifically created to make human life possible, it is a universe that is extremely hostile to the type of life that we know of.

There are untold numbers of places in this universe where some of the necessary ingredients for the kind of life that we know occur. Is the Creator a failure in all of these places where not all of the necessary conditions exist of conscious life to exist?

So far, we only know of one place, our Earth that has the right conditions for conscious creatures with the ability to ponder their existence and to communicate outside of our home world. Even here, on our Earth, sometimes referred to as the miracle planet, conditions weren't always so great for life. There have been times in the ancient past, long before humans invented their concept of sin, when natural events occurred, that wiped out great percentages of species and whole orders of life. What does this say of a Creator who fined tuned the universe for life? Were the great meteor impacts, which are believed to be responsible for some or all of these periods of mass extinction part of the Creators fine-tuning? Did he need to intervene to kill off the dinosaurs so that humans could eventually evolve from mammals, which previously lived in the shadows of the great beasts?

As we can see with the points I have raised, those who attempt to mix religion with true knowledge of the world can get themselves into a difficult position.

Vincent Sauvé

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are world, space, stars very simple and daily words? NOO!, September 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Creation Of The Universe (Paperback)

Yes If you read this book I believe you think like me. Before read this, I never thought on the existence of the universe and the perfect balance of the system. I knew the stars and some planets which turn around it on their orbits, and star also goes through on a orbit to another big star. But that is not only simple reality. The balances, the numbers exceeds my understanding, the temperatures are unbelievable, the speeds unpredictable. The distances and their balances are not explained by chance.
If you read this book, you can understand that the existence of the universe cannot explained without accepting creation and designer.
Thanks to all men and women who spend time and effort to present this book to me. From writer to YOU ...and other sellers and to my BEST friend AHMET who advised me this book.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars meeting of science and religion, April 24, 2004

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Beky (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creation Of The Universe (Paperback)

i am aware of science, i am also aware of religion. But this was a great experience seeing that science and religion meets this well. thanks to the author for his intellectual study