Give me a critical analysis of this.. (Earth, beliefs, creation)

[Popeyesays]

Originally Posted by Abdul Latif

Okay... Very interesting:

From Wikipedia (under meteorites)

'The three main classes of meteorite are stony, stony-iron and iron.'

'Stony iron meteorites constitute the remaining 2%. They are a mixture of iron-nickel and silicate minerals. They are thought to have originated in the boundary zone above the core regions where iron meteorites originated. A small number of meteorites belong to additional groups or subgroups with unique chemical characteristics relative to other members of the larger groups, such as lunar meteorites or Martian meteorites . Tektites (from Greek tektos, molten), natural glass objects up to a few centimeters in size, were formed--according to most scientists--by the impact of large meteorites on Earth's surface, although a few researchers favor an origin from the Moon as volcanic ejecta.'

Anyone can elaborate on that? It's a little unclear to me.

It does however seem a little 'strange' that the Quran uses the word 'descended' specifically.

When man first found iron to work in a fire and make tools and weapons from it was meteoric iron. Why? Because those men did not recognize the form of iron ore, and did not know how to smelt it.

I think that we probably need more context for the Qur'anic quotation you gave us. Why not give us the ten or so verses surrounding the one we saw? And see how the importance of meteoric iron and the words of the Qur'an might lead to new understandings of the verse in context.
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I wanted to point out a couple paragraphs from the writings of Baha`u'llah which refer in a real sense to the transmutation of elements in the stellar furnace. He wrote these lines talking about spiritual transmutation, but His use of these particular words I find fascinating - He discusses the spiritual in terms of the transmutation from iron to copper to gold. It sounds alchemical at first, but putting it together with what we know today of stellar physics reveals a fascinating prognostication of science by Baha`u'llah:

"For instance, consider the substance of copper. Were it to be protected in its own mine from becoming solidified, it would, within the space of seventy years, attain to the state of gold. There are some, however, who maintain that copper itself is gold, which by becoming solidified is in a diseased condition, and hath not therefore reached its own state.
Be that as it may, the real elixir will, in one instant, cause the substance of copper to attain the state of gold, and will traverse the seventy-year stages in a single moment. Could this gold be called copper? Could it be claimed that it hath not attained the state of gold, whilst the touch-stone is at hand to assay it and distinguish it from copper?"
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 156)

The natural mine is within the star and the "single moment" is the super nova.

Regards,
Scott