Atheist to me: You are wrong. You either did not read
what the scientists say about the universe or you have not understood it.
Please read the following articles on what the scientists say about the
creator. It says sincere universe is eternal, there is no role for the
creator.
Me: You know, Prem (name
changed), your gods - I mean, the scientists - are like those proverbial blind
men who had tried to find out what the elephant was like.
The truth is that they do not know the whole Truth! They are
just groping in the dark, thinking what they can feel with their hands to be
that whole Truth. I don't blame them; they are really blind.
But, sadly, they refuse to realise their limitations. They don't
realise that they're just picking up, as one of their brother scientists had
once said, one or two pebbles, here and there, on the vast seashore of
knowledge. They will remain blind of that vast seashore unless & until they
swallow their false pride that they know everything.
Their much-lauded work - as regards origin of the universe, at
least - is nothing but indulging in guessing with the limited power of their
mortal, human minds, driven by their irrational and idiotic opposition to the
very concept of God. That concept is anathema to them. They are not sure of
what they pontifically theorise. That is why you find words like 'may have',
'appear to', being frequently used in their 'research’ papers. I don't blame
them for that. They are, after all, fantasizing about what could have
happened millions of years before they, poor fellows, were even born!!
And you, Prem, want me to believe in their half-baked theories,
of which they are themselves not sure, to be the gospel truth!?
I think you have forwarded the 2nd of the two web pages -
the one about God having no time - without bothering to read for yourself what
it actually says. It seeks to disprove Hawking's
grandiose claim that God had no time for creating the universe! You might have
googled for it and just sent it because its title suited your
atheistic view. Please read it. It debunks Hawking's theory.
Brother, time is a relative entity. For a living being like a
bird or an animal - or a human being, for that matter - it begins with its
birth and ends with its death. [Man is a more intelligent animal; he comes to
learn, in course of time, that time extends beyond his lifespan.] And for the
Universe, similarly, time began when it itself came into being and would end
when it itself would come to an end. The Universe is, per se,
unintelligent. If it were to express itself, time would be analogous with its
own existence. Behaving like the unintelligent universe or the semi-intelligent
bird or animal, the supposedly ultra-intelligent Stephen Hawking cannot
think beyond the limitations of the Universe and declares - as if he knows
everything - that there cannot be any time beyond the Universe. The article you
sent me proves he is wrong. He has forgotten about the relative character of
time.
To overcome the inconvenient notion of singularity in Einstein's
theory of general relativity, scientists are now busy compiling the quantum
theory wherein too they encounter some - small, per them - perturbations. Time
alone will tell us whether these are really small or insurmountably big to
warrant promulgation of yet another human theory.
'The cosmological terms and a radiation term', they say, keep
the universe at a finite size, and therefore give it an infinite age.
Finite size and infinite age are mutually incompatible terms. Only infinite
size can have infinite age. The scientist community are fighting on whether the
universe is finite or infinite, whether it is expanding at an accelerated rate
or a constant rate, and on very many such imponderables.
And my dear Prem wants me to consider their wild guesses as
gospel truths!!
Come on, friend, accept the reality! Our scientists are
no better than those proverbial blind men.
Why should I believe in their hypotheses which are all motivated
by their common hatred of God. They just want somehow to disprove His
existence. And what will their Godless false perspective of human life give me?
It will give me freedom to do as I will! Since this worldly life
would be the be-all and end-all of existence, I would like to have everything I
want, by hook or by crook. I will leave no illegal and immoral stone unturned,
taking care not to get ensnared in the mesh spread by the always imperfect
human governance I would be under. I could always grease the palms of
authorities concerned to get my need fulfilled. There would be no fool-proof
monitor to observe my ill-deeds.
And why should I then not do so? I see injustices perpetrated in
this world everyday. The rich are getting richer, and the poor, poorer. People
with influence and money power seemingly get away scot free after committing
blatant acts of oppression, suppression and corruption.
But I do not do so because I know for certain that atheism is an
absolutely false premise. I know for certain that my Creator is closely
monitoring all my acts of omission and commission in this world. If I do
anything illegal or immoral, I may escape scrutiny by worldly authorities, but
not from His scrutiny. I know for certain He will punish me either through
those authorities or by any other means at His infinite command.
I may myself not get absolute justice in this world. It is a
fact of this worldly life that many do not. Your atheistic platform does not
provide any hope for such people. Those of them, who do not have a staunch
belief in God, succumb to their utter feeling of helplessness and commit
suicide or resort to terror and violence.
But those who really believe in God do not so lose their
patience. They display their courage of conviction in the dictum that God is
indeed in overall control of life in this world, and He is never unjust. They
are convinced that life in this world is only a long-drawn-out test. God is
testing them through trials and tribulations. Even if they do not seem to get
full justice in this world, they are bound to get it in another world, to which
mankind will get resurrected. Yes, another world! The apparent injustice prevailing
in this worldly life is a definite pointer to that other world, where everyone
is scheduled to get full justice. Mankind could not have been created to
suffer injustice. While this world of tests is only of short duration, the
other world is everlasting. Wise men do not sacrifice everlasting happiness
there for a very limited and dubious happiness in this world.
For you, Prem, this other world is nothing but mere fantasy,
indulged in by prehistoric ancient people. I won't blame you. Your gods, the
scientists, have rubbished the very idea of mankind being resuscitated in
another world, although science has given us a definite pointer to that
possibility when man has been able to clone an animal. Given their cultivated
hatred for God, the scientists are, of course, liable to ignore any such
pointers. In fact, that other world is beyond human intellect however bright it
may be.
That is why the all-knowing Creator had been sending His human
Messengers one after another, till mankind reached its historic age, to
inculcate in them the need for and the reality of the other world. Their divine
Messages are recorded in the holy Scriptures of various religions. I have not
studied the other Scriptures, but I have studied the Qur'aan, the last of those
divine Messages.
And the Qur'aan contains many evidences of its being divine, and
not man-made. It gives me the badly needed moral support to lead my life in
this rather harsh world. Your gods, the scientists, cannot give me that
support.
Mohammad
Shafi
Friday, the 9th
of December, 2016
