Does God exist?
No one is in a better position to defend the existence of God, like God himself and as proof of his existence and control, using falsifiability long before scientist employs it, cited four things only he could do. Falsify any of these and I will rubbish the idea of God myself and turn Atheist.
1.He created life- Q21:30“We have created every living thing from water: will they still not believe?”God claims he created every living thing, but for those who deny his existence and role as the architect of life, the burden of proof is on them as God rightly challenges them in the QuranQ22:73“O men here is a parable set forth listen to it. Those on whom, besides God, you call cannot create even a fly, if they all met together for the purpose”Life is surely explicable in terms of the laws of physics and chemistry and all the various steps involved on how life evolved on this planet is very well understood, except for the origin which is marred by stumbling blocks and crevasses. The problem of the origin of life according to Stanley Miller“Has turned out to be much more difficult than I, and most other people, envisaged”Mr. Miller happened to be the leading experimentalist on the origin of life. Simon Conway also said“life cannot be created in the laboratory, nor is there any clear prospect of it happening...….It was effectively a fluke-like happening, a one in a trillion chance, perhaps the emergence was almost a miracle”Likewise Francis Crick says“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle”In Sir Karl Popper's opinion, the breakthrough of molecular biology, far from solving the problem of the origin of life, has made it, a greater riddle than it was before.Darwin theory of evolution had quite remarkably explained descent with modification but it doesn’t explain the genesis of it. Darwinism starts with life already here and Darwin accepted that organisms are “designed” for certain purposes, that is, that they are functionally organized. Darwin himself famously sought to sidestep the issue of the origin of life by placing it outside of his explanatory framework, maybe realizing that that is jumping into teleology. What pitted religious circles with Darwinism is the exclusion of God as the explanation for the obvious design for organisms. The secret of life is far beyond the realm of physicality alone, or scientist would have already created an artificial life. Michael Ruse asked what kind of substance is life? Rocks never had it, a dead cow had it and has now lost it, you and I have it.
2.He created matter: Q21:30“Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit of Creation (The primordial atom) before we clove them asunder? (The big bang)”Likewise the process of how the universe emerged is also fairly understood, but is it a complete picture? Francisco Ayala says“The creation or origin of the universe involves a transition from nothing into being. But a transition can only be scientifically investigated if we have some knowledge about the state of entities on both sides of the boundary. Nothingness, however, is not a subject for scientific investigation or understanding, therefore, as far as science is concerned, the origin of the universe will remain forever a mysterySome scientist hopefully looks forward to the discovery of the “Theory of everything”, “The grand unified theory” that will eventually unify gravity with other forces as Martin Rees said“One of the challenges of 21st-century physics, in my opinion, is to understand the relationship of gravity to the other forces and thereby give us a firmer picture of the initial tiny fraction of a second of our Big Bang. When we have that understanding, we will know whether our Big Bang has unique properties or whether it was part of some ensemble which could display variety. I think it will be attractive if it turns out that there is a multiverse allowing a variety of big bangs”Suppose this is achieved, the idea of the multiverse will also verge on the ontological.
3.He created death: Death and extinction of life on earth is a fundamental belief with all the western religions. In 1 Samuel 2:6“The lord kills and makes alive, he brings down to the grave and brings up”And in the Qur’an 56:60“We have decreed Death to be your common lot and we are not to be frustrated from changing your Forms and creating you (again) in (Forms) that ye know not”Death is defined in the Encarta encyclopedia as “The irreversible cessation of life…” Thus all living things must also die, and death is not the end of it all as God says he will change our forms and create us in another form (meaning we will evolve even after death). God challenged the atheists Q25:3“…nor can they control Death nor Life nor Resurrection”If anybody says that the universe has“...no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference”...then let him create life out of nothing or prevent live matter from death.
4.The final challenge from God is as he puts it in Qur’an 31:34“Verily with God alone rests the knowledge of when the last hour will come….and he alone knows what is in the womb; whereas no one knows what he will reaps tomorrow, and no one knows in what land he will die. Verily God alone is all knowing all aware”God is telling us we can never have absolute knowledge to be able to predict the future. Quantum physics, only recently gave us the uncertainty principle in which we cannot determine with precision the behavior of a single sub atomic particle or a photon of light.“Matter is arranged in such elusive lines and it is not that such uncertainty inherent in Quantum theory arises out of our gaps in knowledge or understanding. It is not as though someday either the precision of our measurement or the level of our understanding will increase to the point where we can predict which photon will go this way or which one will move another way. On the contrary, the more accurately we measure individual event, the clearer it becomes that the outcome of those events are indeterminate”Life is built upon an apparatus that amplifies the uncertainties of events at the atomic level as God mentioned above centuries ago. The unpredictability of nature means that the clockwork assumptions of extreme materialism, namely that, knowing past history and mechanism negates all events in the future to a predictable, rule based playing out of chemistry and physics are simply wrong. Is God really superfluous? If he is then science must account for all the teleological aspects of creation like how did the universe came about, how did life originates and explain the issue of death. Science cannot do that for the simple fact it is beyond the scientific method. It will only be fair if atheists like Dawkins do not advocate for the non-existence of God, because in his explanation of the “Memes” he said“We don’t know what they are made of, or where they reside…..memes presumably exist in brains, and we have even less chance of seeing one than of seeing a gene”Alister McGrath answered him beautifully by saying“Dawkins talking about memes is like believers talking about God - an invisible, unverifiable postulate, which helps explain some things about experience, but ultimately lies beyond empirical investigation”Extreme materialism is wrong even by the terms of science, as the unpredictability of nature show us that the more accurately we measure individual events, the clearer it becomes that the outcome of those events are indeterminate. If we are nothing but atoms and molecules then there would be nothing for us to do, but blindly follow the determined instructions of the machine within us. Most of the scientists in the Victorian times take on Natural theology, blending their science with their Christian backgrounds. In fact Darwin himself was a Theist as he confirmed in his book “Life and Letters”“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason, and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking for backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist…..I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."But after the publication of Darwin’s “Origins of species” in the 1850’s, which naturally challenged the existing conventional Natural Theology, a band of vociferous contenders for the supremacy of science gathered together under the leadership of Darwin’s leading supporter - T. H. Huxley- and created the X-Club. Eight out of nine of the members were all fellows of the Royal Society and their chief aim was, in its simplest form, to replace conventional religion by a world view that involves nature and nature only. Their modus operandi was, first, to discredit the established Church. In attacking the church “Mother nature” was an indispensable ally, she was, in short, a substitute for God. Therefore whatever was previously the role of God is now appropriated to “Nature”. A whole new literature emerged and a new periodical for specialist science, called appropriately “Nature” was established. The second phase of their strategy wasn’t so much to attack the church as to imitate it. Thus new congregations were formed and lay sermons encouraged through publications of papers. Science had become a new religion with its popularizers as emerging prophets. The attendant atheistic overtones in the way science is carried out today will surely have made Huxley and co. grin in their graves; as sacrilization of science and secularization of society has been accomplished.
https://www.quora.com/Does-God-exist/answer/Ali-Abubakar-Sadiq
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