Sometimes I wonder if I would still be an atheist if ______ never happened and totally changed my life.?
And made me so happy that I ran out and told it on a mountain top.
And made me so happy that I ran out and told it on a mountain top.
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Is the missing word education? Science?
Anonymous
Our universe is the work of a Creator. It was fashioned by Him according to a plan and, in its functioning, all instrumentality is His alone. Just as every atom of the universe is obedient to the will of God, so also does it behove human beings to lead their lives in submission to His wishes.
‘Is there any doubt about God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth?’ (Jonah: 14) Here the Quran appears to be posing a question, but it is, of course, a rhetorical one. It indicates that the very existence of the heavens and the earth are concrete evidence of God’s creativity, thus proving His existence beyond any shadow of doubt. This idea is further elaborated in the Quran. ‘Do not those, who disbelieve, see that the heavens and the earth were one piece joined together, then we cleaved them asunder?’(21:30)
It has been estimated that the present radius of the universe is at least ten thousand million light years. Cosmology has revealed that the universe is not static, but is expanding at an even speed on all sides in an ever-continuing process. About the expanding universe, we are told in The Final Testament (i.e. The Quran): “We have built it (Universe) with power. Verily. We are expanding it.”(51:47)It refers to the expansion of the Universe in totally unambiguous terms. It has been deduced from this that the universe must at some stage in the past have been in an embryonic stage. According to certain cosmologists, the entire universe was initially in the form of a ‘super atom’, all of whose elements were pulled inward by irresistible forces. About fifteen billion years ago, this primary matter underwent an explosion, or energy release, as a result of which the particles of the ‘ super atom’ broke away from their centre and started expanding on all side in such a way that the present universe was brought into being. The forces operating inside the super atom before the ‘energy release’ were consistently those of pulling and shrinking inwards. The outward journey of the particles, in contravention of their own principles, could only be the result of interference by outside force or agency. This extraordinary occurrence compels one to accept the existence of an independent power, extraneous to the universe, which is the source of all powers and which by deliberate design, caused this otherwise inexplicable movement of primary matter. ‘Had there been in them (the heavens and earth) gods beside the One God, there would have been disorder in both of them.’ (The Glorious Quran, 21:22)
The Quranic words would appear to refer to this particular occurrence in the universe and prove that this supernal power, although multiple in form, is one in essence. For those who have never made a study of this subject, it may seem a matter of astonishment that all of the physical sciences confirm the universe’s being subject to a single law. It follows that the laws that operate on this earth also hold good for all of the heavenly bodies. It was this basic assumption which gave human beings the impetus to spend billions and billions on the construction of space machines, and also gave them the courage to land them on the Moon and Mars according to an organized and well though-out plan. If there had been no such single law operative in the entire universe with such perfect exactitude, the telescopes on earth would not have been able to scan a distance of eight thousand million light years. Without this law, our physical sciences would suddenly lose all relevance. The fact of the universe being governed by such a unified law points unmistakably to the conclusion that it has been designed, and is controlled, by one God alone. Had it been controlled by several gods (or ‘forces’), it would surely have been plagued by disorder, it would have been disorganized by the inevitable conflicts between several ‘gods’. There would have been one law operating on this earth and quite different laws on other planets. But our physical observation confirms that a single law governs all objects, and that the universe adheres strictly to this principle. The Quran expresses it thus: ‘It is He (God) who has created everything, and has determined the due proportion of everything’ (25:2).
Anonymous
It's not one thing! It's the cumulative effect of acquiring knowledge over time!!
motivational_raven
I was fortunate enough to not have parents that brainwashed and indoctrinated me with atheism
Anonymous
Sh!t always happens though