God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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This theory was first properly expounded in the
year 1915 by a German geologist, Alfred Wegener.
Together, they could be fitted into one another like
a Jigsaw puzzle. For instance, the eastern coast of
South America joins with the western coast of
Africa, etc.
There are several other such resemblances to be
found on opposite coasts of vast oceans, e.g.
mountains of the same kind, rocks dating back to
the same geological period, animals, fishes and
plants of the same type and so on.
Professor Ronald Good, in his book entitled,
Geography of the Flowering Plants
, writes that
botanists are almost unanimous in their view that
the presence of certain types of plants in various
regions of the earth cannot be explained unless we
suppose that, at some point in the past, these tracts
of land were joined together.
Some fossil magnetism having supported this
theory, it has become an established scientific
doctrine. A study of the particular direction of stone
particles reveals the altitude and latitudes of the
rock of which they formed a part in ancient times.
