The Origins of the Universe

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Expanding can be described as splitting apart. Something is expanding, after all.

Nope. The two are not even close to being the same.

And it is space itself that is expanding, not anything material.

If space is expanding, any two galaxies are also expanding, AFAIK. I am not sure why you say here "not anything material"......?

And it's hard to convey the idea that space is expanding to people 14 centuries ago, you know. You should always keep in mind that the Qur'an's message is also directed to people who lived a while ago, with very limited scientific understanding.

And that doesn't make the falsehoods in the account any less false. It isn't even a good analogy.

You didn't point out any "falsehood" so far, you're just complaining that the Qur'an didn't convey modern theory verbatim, which is not even possible if its audience lived in the 7th century.

LeMaitre also warned the pope not to try to use the Big Bang theory as a support of religious views.

The *physics* and the *evidence* supports the BB theory. it has *nothing* to do with religious beliefs.

In particular, in the BB version that LeMaitre proposed there is no 'before the Big Bang'. Time itself starts when the universe does.

The BB theory is obviously compatible with orthodox religious beliefs about the beginning of the world. You still didn't explain why you think the BB theory is damaging for the Islamic account of creation. The Qur'an could've easily claimed that the Earth or the sky always existed.