According to the Quran, Allah Created the Universe from Nothing, Merely by His Words, Physicists Now Agree

Epigraph:

بَدِيعُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِذَا قَضَىٰ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. (Al Quran 2:117)

Have they been created from nothing, or are they their own creators? Have they created the heavens and the earth? In truth they put no faith in anything. (Al Quran 52:35-36)

Commentary by Zia H Shah MD

The above video is about Lawrence Krauss’ book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, which was first published in 2012. Richard Dawkins promoted the book and wrote Afterword for this. He said: “This could potentially be the most important scientific book with implications for supernaturalism since Darwin.”

My presentation is about adopting this book written for atheism, for the service of Islam and as commentary of the Quran, especially the verses that talk about the origin of universe, including the one cited as epigraph above.

Considering the amount of energy packed in the nucleus of a single uranium atom, or the energy that has been continuously radiating from the sun for billions of years, or the fact that there are 10^80 particles in the observable universe, it seems that the total energy in the universe must be an inconceivably vast quantity. But it’s not; it’s probably zero.

Light, matter and antimatter are what physicists call “positive energy.” And yes, there’s a lot of it (though no one is sure quite how much). Most physicists think, however, that there is an equal amount of “negative energy” stored in the gravitational attraction that exists between all the positive-energy particles. The positive exactly balances the negative, so, ultimately, there is no energy in the universe at all.

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Cosmologists have constructed a theory called inflation that accounts for the way in which a small volume of space occupied by a virtual particle pair could have ballooned to become the vast universe we see today. Alan Guth, one of the main brains behind inflationary cosmology, thus described the universe as “the ultimate free lunch.”

In a lecture, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll put it this way: “You can create a compact, self-contained universe without needing any energy at all.”[1]

Krauss describes some good science in the video above but unfortunately draws the wrong conclusions. We can accept his science but can easily refute his metaphysics by learning from more thoughtful theologians and philosophers and some of the articles are linked below. Around minute 10.30 he confesses his punch line that he is answering the ‘How,’ question and not the ‘Why,’ question. If we ask the wrong questions the answers do not matter. Given his atheistic premises he is drawing the wrong conclusions.

He does not tackle the all important question well articulated by Stephen Hawking:

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

In the video Kraus frivolously tires to take the possibility of purpose out from the study of cosmology by mentioning a mistake of Kepler from a few centuries ago.

Gathering more information about the subject may show us that Krauss is merely indulging in word play and his science is only serving the cause of God of Abrahamic faiths and how He has been described in the Quran.

Without further adoo I want to present a few more articles on the subject:

Asking the Ultimate Questions Properly Refutes Atheism

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How Could Most Mathematicians Believe in Heaven, But Not in God?

Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) We have created the heavens and […]

Allah created the universe or the multiverse through mathematics  بِالْحَقِّ

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, as a chapter of upcoming book: The Quran and the Biological Evolution Galileo Galilei famously said, “Mathematics is the language in which […]

Video: Is God Necessary or Who Made God?

Epigraph اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ ۚ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوْمٌ ۚ لَّهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ ۗ مَن ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِندَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ ۚ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۖ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ […]

Debate Does the Universe have a purpose?

Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy

Reference

1. https://www.livescience.com/33129-total-energy-universe-zero.html#:~:text=Now%2C%20after%20the%20big%20bang,of%20the%20universe%20remains%20zero.