http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M4T4uD7sjBk^Please watch critically. I am sure that verses 41:9-12 are talking about Earth's atmosphere. Here is my little explanation (watch the video please
Say, "Do you indeed disbelieve in He who created the earth in two days and attribute to Him equals? That is the Lord of the worlds."
And He placed on the earth firmly set mountains over its surface, and He blessed it and determined therein its [creatures'] sustenance in four days without distinction - for [the information] of those who ask.
^After the Earth was created he put mountains/volcanoes over its surface and through those activities in the mountains, the creatures on the Earth could have sustenance!!!!
Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come [into being], willingly or by compulsion." They said, "We have come willingly."
^After it talks about mountains, it mentions SMOKE!!--Volcanoes! That is how the Earth's atmosphere was created, through volcanic emissions. Through those emission the atmospheres could develop!
And He completed them as seven heavens within two days and inspired in each heaven its command. And We adorned the nearest heaven with lamps and as protection. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.^It doesn't say the nearest haven has 'lamps', it says it was adorned or decorated with lamps. So the lower heaven is adorned with the beauty of the stars and not the stars themselves! Think about it: The Quran is discussing the creation of the Earth in the first verse. It does not say the Earth was created and then the universe (heavens), it says the earth was created and then the atmosphere (heavens can also mean sky)--Which is scientifically accurate. MOREOVER, the QUran says that through mountains--smoke developed and made the atmosphere which was competed therefore creatures could have sustenance. Without the atmosphere, the first life forms could have not evolved.
^I love this video! Alhamdulliah I have found it--It cleared up so much!
I hope it does for you,
Salam
Now my question is: When the Quran said that God created the heavens and the Earth in 6 days, is it referring to the universe or the atmosphere?
