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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 8628058" data-attributes="member: 91140">The Quran on Seas and Rivers<img src="http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/503/thequranonseasandrivershy1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Modern  Science has discovered that in the places where two different seas  meet, there is a barrier between them.  This barrier divides the two  seas so that each sea has its own temperature, salinity, and density.[1]   For example, Mediterranean sea water is warm, saline, and less dense,  compared to Atlantic ocean water.  When Mediterranean sea water enters  the Atlantic over the Gibraltar sill, it moves several hundred  kilometers into the Atlantic at a depth of about 1000 meters with its  own warm, saline, and less dense characteristics.  The Mediterranean  water stabilizes at this depth[2] (see figure 1).<img src="http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/8967/thequranonseasandriversbl7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Figure  1: The Mediterranean sea water as it enters the Atlantic over the  Gibraltar sill with its own warm, saline, and less dense  characteristics, because of the barrier that distinguishes between them.   Temperatures are in degrees Celsius (C°). (Marine Geology, Kuenen, p.  43, with a slight enhancement.)Although there are large waves, strong currents, and tides in these seas, they do not mix or transgress this barrier. The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress.  God has said:“He has set free the two seas meeting together.  There is a barrier between them.  They do not transgress.” (Quran 55:19-20)But  when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water,  it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the  barrier.  God has said in the Quran:“He is the one who has set  free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other  salty and bitter.  And He has made between them a barrier and a  forbidding partition.” (Quran 25:53)One may ask, why did the  Quran mention the partition when speaking about the divider between  fresh and salt water, but did not mention it when speaking about the  divider between the two seas?Modern science has discovered that  in estuaries, where fresh (sweet) and salt water meet, the situation is  somewhat different from what is found in places where two seas meet.  It  has been discovered that what distinguishes fresh water from salt water  in estuaries is a “pycnocline zone with a marked density  discontinuity separating the two layers.”[3]  This partition (zone of  separation) has a different salinity from the fresh water and from the  salt water4 (see figure 2).<img src="http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4439/thequranonseasandriversts7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Figure  2: Longitudinal section showing salinity (parts per thousand ‰) in an  estuary.  We can see here the partition (zone of separation) between  the fresh and the salt water. (Introductory Oceanography, Thurman, p.  301, with a slight enhancement.)This information has  been discovered only recently, using advanced equipment to measure  temperature, salinity, density, oxygen dissolubility, etc.  The human  eye cannot see the difference between the two seas that meet, rather the  two seas appear to us as one homogeneous sea.  Likewise, the human eye  cannot see the division of water in estuaries into the three kinds:  fresh water, salt water, and the partition (zone of separation). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Footnotes: [1] Principles of Oceanography, Davis, pp. 92-93.[2] Principles of Oceanography, Davis, p. 93.[3] Oceanography, Gross, p. 242.  Also see Introductory Oceanography, Thurman, pp. 300-301.Source: <a href="http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/214/" target="_blank">http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/214/</a>Many Thanks To: <a href="http://www.islamreligion.com/" target="_blank">http://www.islamreligion.com/</a></blockquote>

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