\n Science has theories to explain the formation of the universe...

\n Science has theories to explain the formation of the universe, starting from ancient ones where earth was perceived to be the centre of the universe and now being abandoned and replaced with more elaborate ones, realising the size of the earth is a fraction as compared with the galaxies with billions of plants.

Science believes that our universe has either always existed or was formed by an explosion, termed as the \u2018Big Bang\u2019.\u00a0 Islam says, Universe is a Creation of God, as per His Will. Below we briefly review both viewpoints. \n Science Hypothesis on the Creation of Universe: \n \u201cThe vast Universe, known to us, contains around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way and at least 140 billion galaxies across the Universe. So how was this unimaginably giant Universe come into being?

For centuries scientists thought the Universe always existed in a largely unchanged form, run like clockwork thanks to the laws of physics. But a Belgian priest and scientist (George Lemaitre) put forward another idea. In 1927, he proposed that the Universe began as a large, pregnant and primaeval atom, exploding and sending out the smaller atoms that we see today. \n His idea went largely unnoticed.

But in 1929 astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe isn\u2019t static but, is in fact, expanding. If so, some scientists reasoned that if you rewound the Universe’s life then at some point it should have existed as a tiny, dense point. Critics dismissed this: the celebrated astronomer Fred Hoyle sarcastically called this concept the \u201cBig Bang\u201d theory, a phrase that would later be adopted by its proponents.

\n Undeterred by sceptics, scientists Ralph Alpher, George Gamow and Robert Herman predicted that if there had been a Big Bang, then a faint afterglow should linger somewhere in the Universe, and we should in theory be able to detect it. To do so would require one of the greatest pieces of \u2018fortune\u2019 in science. \n As per Big Bang theory, around 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter in the Universe emerged from a single, minute point, or singularity, in a violent burst.

This is said to have expanded at a high rate and temperature, doubling in size every 10-34 seconds, creating space as it rapidly inflated. Within a tiny fraction of a second gravity and all the other forces were formed. Energy changed into particles of matter and antimatter, which largely destroyed each other. But it is said that some matter survived.