What is the interpretation of the contradiction between the story of the Earth's creation in Islam—which mentions the creation of the Earth on Saturday, the mountains on Sunday, and the trees on Monday—and what modern science has proven regarding the Earth's beginning being volcanoes and rocks, with no trees?
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The Creator of the heavens and the earth is Allah, Glorified and Exalted be He. His Almighty Word is the sole and definitively established reference. A believer must compare the words of others to the Word of Allah; whatever conforms to the Book of Allah is truth, and whatever contradicts it is falsehood. Scientific theories are not constant and may be refuted by other theories. It is not rational to oppose what is constant with what is not constant, for Allah knows best what He has created.
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