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Islam, Darwinism and Atheism PDF Print E-mail
Written by Saqib Khan, London, U.K.   

 

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nou·me·non (n m -n n )

n. pl. nou·me·na (-n )

In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. Also called thing-in-itself.


[German, from Greek nooumenon, from neuter present passive participle of noein, to perceive by thought, from nous, mind.]


nou men·al (-m -n l) adj.

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I enjoyed reading your well-written article. In fact, I always enjoy reading you.

Modern science is successful in telling you the weight and chemical structure of a red pine leaf, but it is totally irrelevant to what is the meaning of the turning of this leaf to red. The ``how'' has been explained in modern science, the ``why'' is not its concern. A little seed contains all the genetic information about its age, height, width, number of leaves it will have and shed off during its life span; and the chemical processes it would need to survive seasonal changes in its entire life is amazing. This exact information of its future existence must have been programmed in the seed by the Programmer or call HIM Allah baffles my mind.
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Religion is seen as necessary and necessity for human existence. Islam envisages religion as not just a part of life but as the whole of it. In fact, aI-Islam or al-din sees itself as life itself and it incorporates what we do, what we make, what we think, what we feel as well as address the question of where we come from and where we are going. That is why Islamic religion always uses the term Al-Din as embracing all facets of human life leaving nothing outside its dominion.

 In the traditional Islamic perspective there is nothing secular, nothing outside the realm that is governed by religion ordained by Allah. There is inter-relation between all things that Allah has created and there is unity that runs through the whole of Allah's created order and through human society if that society is to be Islamic. There must be unity in human life; there must be unity in the relationship between man and the world of nature; there must be unity in human thought; there must be unity what man makes, in the art, the architecture and cities which he creates. All of these forms of unity reflect the Wisdom and Will of Allah in our world, the Will which is embodied most concretely in the Divine law or Shariah and which should be expressed in every authentic facet of the Muslim's life. Islamic doctrine is based on revealing of the total Nature of Divinity who is the One without a partner. That is the heart of Islamic message. Islam came to the world so that man could know the Unity of Allah.big-bang

As well order and organization, we observe beauty and harmony in Allah's (God's) tahkleeq (creation) from the beautiful birds of paradise, inspirational feathers of a peacock or the wings of a butterfly to the awe-inspiring landscape of mountains, valleys and the vast sky above. Charles Darwin failed in his theory and said it often that looking at the magnificent feathers of a peacock made him feel ridiculous.animalsevolution Darwinism is used by the materialistic scientists and western government to crush religion, exploit masses, perpetuate immorality and use science for the manufacture of WMDS for death and destruction of mankind. The concept of science and mechanism is a purely physical concept claimed to be the all-embracing explanation of Nature but it is not true. Powerful telescopes, electron microscopes, laser beams are not the end of that can see and exists in the universe but the Reality will remain beyond the reach of 'man' imagination and knowledge, and that is the demarcation line between human achievement and his limitation of acquired knowledge. Francis Bacon has rightly said that a little knowledge of science makes man an atheist, but an in-depth study of science makes him a believer in, Allah, God.

Materialists, atheists and agnostics consider evolutionary theory to be scientific basis of their ideology and get some intellectual satisfaction from its nonsense.alt Darwin never underwent any formal education in Biology but was very interested in the study of nature and living things. After his five years of expedition on the HMS Beagle, he developed this idea that since variety of living species in different regions has differences and similarities; they must have originated from a common ancestor. The materialist scientists delude themselves by supporting and teaching this theory and refuse to accept that the complexity of life that exists in the Universe functions in miraculous harmony and order and not by mechanism of chance. It is calculated that a DNA chain small enough to fill a teaspoon has the capacity to store all the information contained in all the books ever written. If we were to write down the information in the DNA, it would take up approximately a million pages and still we would not be sure if it was correct: such is the infinite mystery. This is equal to an encyclopedia forty times bigger than Encyclopedia Britannica but this incredible information is contained in the tiny nucleus of billions of our cells.

 

 A body needs oxygen to breathe and live but after death: can we bring a dead body back to life by putting oxygen into the body?   Modern science is successful in telling you the weight and chemical structure of a red pine leaf, but it is totally irrelevant to what is the meaning of the turning of this leaf to red. The ''how'' has been explained in modern science, the ''why'' is not its concern. If you are a physics student and you ask the question, 'what is the force of gravitation?' the teacher will tell you the formula, but as to what the nature of this force is, he will tell you it is not a subject for physics. So science is very successful in certain fields, but leaves other aspects of reality aside. 

 "Soon we will show them our signs in the (farthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.  Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" [Al-Quran 41:53] 

A dog can see things that you cannot; a dog can smell and hear things that you cannot because neither you're eyes nor your ears can see beyond the fifth sense. Have you ever tried to look into the mysteries of a brain and how it functions (if you have one)? No doubt, the day of greatest affliction will be the Day of Judgment, and a person would be unfortunate to be in the position of acknowledging the existence of God for the first time on that day.  The English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, spoke of the irony of the distressed human appeal in The Cry of the Human:" And lips say "God be pitiful." I believe that after we die, we will find out if there is a God. There is also a Moral Argument for believing in God "Soon we will show them our signs in the (farthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" [Al-Quran 41:53]  The more I look at Charles Darwin, the more I am convinced that he descended from apes. Why do not we agree that that everything living and non-living was created and try to discover the art, wonder, mechanics and intelligence in the creation? Let us be not arrogant with our little knowledge that is a drop in a ocean compared to what we know not, and feel humble at God's, Allah or the Greatest Scientist, if you wish to call Him with a new name.  The discoveries of Newton in the sphere of matter and those of Darwin in the sphere of natural history discover a mechanism working from beyond time zero. All problems, it was believed were really the problem of Physics, Energy, micro Biology, physiology and atoms with the properties self-existing in them, could explain everything including life itself, thought, will and feeling. The concept of science and mechanism is a purely physical concept claimed to be the all-embracing explanation of Nature but not true. Powerful telescopes, electron microscopes, laser beams are not the end of that can see and exists in the universe but the Reality will remain beyond the reach of 'man' imagination and knowledge, and that is the demarcation line between human achievement and his limitation of acquired knowledge. We are born and meant to discover the forces that exist and lives in the universe and lives inside and functions in our bodies, in organic life, and use it for the good of mankind and not for its destruction. The question, then, is whether the passage to Reality through the revelations of sense perception necessarily leads to a view of Reality essentially opposed to the view that religion And the battle for and against mechanism is still being fiercely fought in the domain of biology. Takes of its ultimate character. Is Natural science finally committed to materialism?" 

Francis Bacon has rightly said that a little knowledge of science makes man an atheist, but an in-depth study of science makes him a believer in God. "Life's greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss him." F.W. Norwood.  Even in the middle of the night, they say an atheist believes in God. Surrounded by lions, wolves, crocodiles and hungry wolves in a jungle even an atheist, I am sure would pray, "If there was a God to help me." 

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . CS Lewis," On a battlefield when smart bombs, cruise missiles and shells are falling all around him, and in a foxhole, there is no atheist; on a death row, on a hang man's rope and on the electric chair facing execution, there are no atheists and they all wish that they believed in God and beg for His mercy in the life -here - after from further punishment. Atheists might assert that they don't acknowledge the existence of God, but the view of some Christians and all Muslims is that at some level even a die-hard atheist wishes for God's presence and His hand around him.  The innate but neglected awareness of God typically surfaces in Atheist consciousness only in times of severe hardship, acute illness, incurable disease, mental depression of tired of living.

An atheist looks at a beautiful building and thinks of its architect; at a painting and thinks of its painter but when he looks at his beautiful body and its miraculous anatomical, biological and physiological functions, he denies its Creator and believes that it evolved at random and by accident.  Surrounded by a world of synchronous complexities, we as mankind cannot even assemble the wing of a gnat.  And yet the entire the Universe exists in a perfect order obeying laws of physics. Look at the eye which is similar to a camera but far more advanced in the way it takes flawless pictures in hundreds of a second, focusing from short to long distances, has its own light and moisture controls and can take 800,000 picture a day without costing a penny. I can go on the marvels of other parts of the body equally miraculous, fascinating and par-excellent and wonders of billions of cells that compose the body with diverse functions. 

No doubt, the day of greatest affliction will be the Day of Judgment, and a person would be unfortunate to be in the position of acknowledging the existence of God for the first time on that day.  The English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, spoke of the irony of the distressed human appeal in The Cry of the Human:" And lips say "God be pitiful." I believe that after we die, we will find out if there is a God. There is also a Moral Argument within for believing in God.

"Soon we will show them our signs in the (farthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" [Al-Quran 41:53]

 

It is beyond human intelligence to comprehend existence of Allah (God) by scientific analysis and physical or chemical experimentation. If that was possible in a laboratory, 'man' would claim to be a god almighty, a Pharaoh, and every scientist eligible for the throne. How then we prove that Allah (God) exits? We have discovered that something must exit other than material objects of physical existence. We know that everything exits in nature with perfect harmony and order and that there must be some sort of force behind the universe, but an intelligent with a purpose and will. Without intelligence, nothing can be created and it is absurd to assume that anything could emerge, jump out or erupt from nothingness. 

 We know that the First Cause was not just a random explosion as some people claim because right conditions were set right at the moment of the big bang.  As we know that the Big Bang theory says that the universe originated from a common point, which is in perfect agreement with the Quran and Islamic thought. For instance, we take the Sun and its sub-product the earth as an example, science informs us that their formation occurred by a process of condensation of the primary nebula and their separation. This is exactly what the Quran expresses very clearly when it refers to the process that produced fusion and subsequent separations starting from celestial smoke (dukhan, gaseous form).  "Verily your Rab is Allah Who created heavenly bodies and the earth in six eras. And He established Himself on the throne of Authority, planning his schemes". In Surah AL-Anbiya 21:30, Allah says "Do the unbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were once joined and then |we clove them asunder? And He made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" Although, it may explain the manner in which the early cosmos developed, it does not explain away the need for a First Cause as many imagine. It is so simple to deduce that from nothing, nothing comes. But  have something and what is the cause of something?

 So how about the common objection from skeptics and atheists who ask, "Who made Allah (God)?" In fact this. Why would a skeptic ask this a very misleading question? It is because he tries to apply the principle of causation to the First Cause. We know that for any physical state, there is another state that preceded it and was the cause of it. However we have found that the First Cause must be something non-physical, something metaphysical, supernatural, or spiritual rather than material. The definition of First cause is a Being that preceded time as we know it, and is outside or beyond our physical universe. We cannot say of such a being that it is located in such -and-such a place in the universe, or that it has certain, shape or age. Our physical intuitions break down. This why it is erroneous and nonsensical to say that this cause of the universe is to have a cause. Can we apply the same principle to it? Of course we cannot; as we know nothing about this being that we could draw such a conclusion about it. The Quran "Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they themselves create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief." At-Tur 52.35-.36). 

Human reason is incapable of knowing the noumenal§ world, as it cannot transcend the boundaries of space and time. Space and time are not objective realities and as they are only modes of apprehending phenomenal realities, they are essentially subjective and have no existence apart from the subject. Human reason has the ability to know only the temporal world and metaphysical is an attempt to know the ultimate realities with limitation. But, there is another level," intuition," that is unique in its experience and essentially different from other mode of cognition. It is not perception or thought and transcends to the heights of unknown. It negates logical, physical and scientific.

 
 

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