423. Was the iron metal brought down from above?
In verse 57:25 of the Quran the Almighty says ‘we sent down iron’.
This message may be news to us because we have been trained to believe the metal is an indigenous item from the earth.
The scientists have explained with adequate proof, the metal known as iron is not of indigenous origin from the earth.
There is a requirement of a certain amount of heat for the formation of each metal in this world as can be seen in the case of Carbon, Sodium, Magnesium, Neon Aluminum, Silicone, Lead, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium etc. But the required heat for the formation of iron did not occur on earth at any point of time in history according to the scientists. If raw materials to produce a product are not available in a particular locality it is natural the same is procured from elsewhere. Hence when there are reasons to believe a product cannot be created from raw material sources that are indigenously not available, but the product is in fact available means the raw material has been made available from outside. Hence there is no doubt a particular raw material that cannot be found indigenously can give rise to an end product that contains the same raw material confirming the raw material has been brought down from another location.
There are certain stars in the ‘Milky Way’ which carry heat of up to 30 crores degrees, when meteorites fall from them, or when comets hurtle towards the earth, they are stopped at the entry level into the earth’s atmosphere and burnt out. The debris resulting from this burn out, fall on the earth’s surface is the collection of iron deposited on earth’s surface during the past billions of years, that we make use of.
Scientists from NASA point out the earth did not at any point of time in its history possess the capacity for formation of iron within itself nor did the other planets of the solar family have the same, because the same scientists say, to create an atom of iron an energy equivalent to four times the energy from all the planets of the solar family put together is needed.
Hence they conclude the iron is a product from outer space and not from the earth.
