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Christian missionaries and other anti-Islamists say that the verse

Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them? And We have made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? - 21:30

They say that the verse is not really miraculous since "almost every mythology" has a story of a major diety parting the heavens and the earth. So I wonder if this is really the case, when thinking of their truthfulness in other cases.

It is remarkably hard to find their creation myths on the web, so I wonder if you can help. The mythology I'm most familiar with is the Norse one, and the creation story of that is not like the Islamic version of the creation of the heavens and the earth.

Insha'Allaah this thread could serve in the future as a refutation of this claim, if some mythology creation stories were collected and then compared to the Islamic version (Quran and Sunnah) of the creation of the universe. Much like the comparison of different embryology beliefs

Salaam...

It should not be surprising to find, if the Creator has revealed some knowledge of "creation" to different peoples, at different times, that each of those peoples' accounts would be found similar to every other account.

It is an irrational rush to judgement to conclude that such similarities "must" be the result of plagiarism; and to not consider that the similarities could be the result of having come from a common Source...Allah.

RM

allah.