Monk Of Reason
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We don't know how the universe came into being. If it had something prior to the big bang. From whence was it created? From what was it created? Ect. Before we even get the basest of information on that we cannot assume that there "must have" been anything.That is why I told you in the first place that our mind is limited. We dont know everything, but for sure we know that our universe had a starting point.
If we want to say that our universe was created in another universe, than what created the other universe?
By saying eternal self-sustaining, I was describing God and not the universe, because the universe has a starting point.
Now I have asked you the same question before. You ignored it. But then you ask me "who created that universe?" that this one may have come from. Perhaps the mulitverse is eternal. We have no idea. Maybe a multiverse doesn't exist. Perhaps it is so wonderful and crazy we can't imagine it. Its like asking a deaf person to imagine Beethoven. Or trying to have a blind person imagine a sunset. Even those comparisons fall short.
Though I'll ask you again, who created god?
Or that natural laws exist in the universe? That also seems to explain everything.Let us imagine two cases:
1- Let us imagine this. You have 20 rocks each given a number from 1 to 20. Lets assume that you throw these rocks randomly for 30 times.
If someone came to study the motion of these rocks in the 30 times, he will be clueless, because the position of each rock is randomly changing. He wont be able to come up with a law which is defining the rocks movement.
2- Now let us imagine that instead of randomly throwing the rocks, you place them according to a certain pattern in your head.
If someone came to study the motion of these rocks, he will be able to know the pattern in which you are arranging the rocks by studying the positions. He will be able to expect the next position.
These means that things dont randomly happen and there is someone who is running the universe.
There are several fallacies with this argument.Once a muslim scholar, called Abu Hanifah was going to have a talk with an atheist who was across the river. But Abu Hanifah came late. They told him Oh Abu Hanifah, a messenger sent for you hours ago, and you arrive now, explain your lateness to us. He said once the messenger delivered the message to me, I began to make my way to the River Tigris, and on reaching the river bank I realised there was no boat, in order to cross the river. I was standing on the river bank looking for a navigator or a boat when something caught my attention in the middle of the river. I looked forward, and to my amazement I saw planks of wood rising to the surface from the sea bed. I was shocked, amazed, I couldnt believe what I saw seeing. Ready made planks of wood were rising up to the surface and joining together. They were all the same width and length, I was astounded at what I saw. I continued to look into the middle of the river, and then I saw nails coming up from the sea floor. They positioned themselves onto the boat and held the planks together, without them being banged. I stood in amazement and thought to myself, Oh Allah, how can this happen, planks of wood rising to the surface by itself, and then nails positioning themselves onto the boat without being banged? I could not understand what was happening before my eyes.
At this moment, the athiest brust out laughing and remarked, Oh Abu Hanifah, I heard that you were the best debator from amongst the Muslims, I heard that you were the wisest, the most knowledgable from amongst your people. From seeing you today, I can say that you show none of these qualities. You speak of a boat appearing from nowhere, without someone having built it. Nails positioning themselves without someone having banged them, sealant being poured without someone having poured it, and the boat taking you to your destination without a navigator against the tide, your taking childish, your talking rediculous, I swear I do not belive a word of it!
Abu Hanifah Rahimullah turned to the athiest and replied, You dont believe a word of it? You dont believe that nails can appear by themselves? You dont believe sealant can be poured by itself? You dont believe that a boat can move without a navigator, hence you dont believe that a boat can appear without a boat maker?
The athiest remarked defiantly, Yes I dont believe a word of it!
Abu Hanifah Rahimullah replied, If you cannot believe that a boat came into being without a boat maker, than this is only a boat, how can you believe that the whole world, the universe, the stars, the oceans, and the planets came into being without a creator?
1) That the boat came into being somehow randomly while nothing of the sort is actually stated in the science of the big bang theory or evolution.
2) We have observed a boat being crafted by mankind. We know the process. If suddenly something was created without that process it would throw us for a loop. Evolution has been observed and evidence provided to occur through a certain process. If animals started raining from the sky or simply "popping" into existence then we would probably not believe them. The core concept is not that there was a "creator" but that something is crafted by a certain process.
3) For us to assume something to be true we must know the variables in question. For example if I saw drawing on the wall in red crayon and I know that Suzy has a red crayon then that must mean that Suzy drew on the wall? correct? No. Because we have not established that Suzy is the ONLY one with a red crayon.
Likewise we don't know the first thing about how universes are created. We don't know the process. We don't know what happened "before" time (thought that in itself is a paradox). So to say that it is an Omnipotent creator with a will and plan is quite a stretch.
And then to go that much further and create the thread that assumes that not only is there a god with a plan that he has come down to create religions in the world and that ONE and JUST ONE of those religions got it exactly right seems a bit ludicrous. There are so many gaps that simply don't logically follow.
And what says that it wasn't the god of Hindu's or Shinto's? Who says any religion got it right? Deists could be correct and that some sort of omnipotent force created the universe but simply doesn't give a rats butt about us. Or there could be no god.God in Islam