The Big Bang theory, which the scientific world unanimously accepted in the 20th century, proves that the universe came into being with a giant explosion. One verse of the Quran that reveals this fact 1400 years ago reads, Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the Earth were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We made from water every living thing? So will they not believe? (Surat Al-Anbiya':30).
The word ratq, translated as sewn together, means mixed in each blended in the Arabic vernacular. The phrase We unstitched is the verb fataqa. And in Arabic it implies the tearing apart of a structure of things that are sown to one another. A very important scientific fact is being described here the separation of the heavens and the Earth. Intriguingly, at the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire matter of the universe collected at one single point. The heavens and earth which were not created yet were within this single point. Then this point exploded violently, causing its matter to disunite. This is just as is described in the verse.
People 14 centuries ago, of course, possessed no scientific knowledge or technology by which to know that the Earth, the sun, the moon, the stars and everything they saw, or that which was invisible in the skies had initially been united in a single point.