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Rasema
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I'm confused. The big bang says that everything was created for a long time. The Qur'an says that everything was created in six days, I think.
Big bang says nothing more precise than that everything originated from a humungus explosion that spread the matter all over the space and formed what we know to be the universe.
All other theories and measurements of time and longevity have had failures and inexplicable paradoxes so they're not part of the theory itself. They're just sticking to an enormous explosion that spread out everything we have in existence.
Islamically we know it is six days to "create" but neither the definition of 6 days is clear (as there are many references to an actual universe day being 50,000 years such as judgement day, while other references say they were 6 of our days) nor to what "creation" would be (a spread out universe, or does it include all elements, or does it include a fully living Earth and systems and galaxies ready for sentinel presence). We just don't know exactly. However our belief in the quran is supreme and everything else comes second, and can be used as clarification of what we don't understand rather than validation.