> Answers to some Atheist Questions

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Q2

As time goes by, we make more scientific discoveries. In the future science will most likely prove that God does not exist. You are only using God to fill up a gap in our knowledge today. How can you tell us with so much confidence that it is God that caused the universe to come into existence?


Answer;

We are not appealing to God due to some gap in our scientific knowledge, rather we are appealing to God due to what the best of scientific knowledge today tells us.

We have to make our decisions today based on what evidence we already have and not what we might have.

I can also argue back that maybe science in the future would prove that God does exist.





Q5

Why did God create people whom He already knew would reject Him and go to hell? Shouldn't God who is All Loving instead not create them so that they won't go through punishment?


Answer 5;

Perhaps if God did not create people that would reject Him then others would not have ended up accepting Him a they would if those people were to be created.

Perhaps this is the best world possible that God could have created in order to get the most people to accept Him.

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jazakAllah .. i always wanted answer to this as often atheists come up with this argument.. are these all your own points?

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asalaam alaikum


bro bassams. :) he made a slideshow.


he's even got a lecture on it. go on his site call-to-monotheism.com and theres probably an audio section there insha Allah. download the atheism one.

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asalaam alaikum

Q2

Answer;

We are not appealing to God due to some gap in our scientific knowledge, rather we are appealing to God due to what the best of scientific knowledge today tells us.

i.e. that there was a first cause (before the big bang). that the cell is more complicated than any other machine man has come across (it contains over 1000 pages of information) and can replicate itself. etc.

Q5

Answer 5;

Perhaps if God did not create people that would reject Him then others would not have ended up accepting Him a they would if those people were to be created.

Perhaps this is the best world possible that God could have created in order to get the most people to accept Him. __________________

bro bassam said in his talk that it may have been that Allah created everyone believers, and then one person might have stopped believing and did some crime, causing millions to disbelieve.


[this argument below also gives the response to the problem of evil];

he gives the example of 9/11 where some hundreds of people died, but due to some actions of some bad people - thousands of people were interested to know what islam really is, so they learnt it and became muslim.

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As-Salamu 'Alaykum

brother Bassam posted his own lecture which can be found at Lecture on Refuting Atheism

good stuff, keep up the good work ya ikhawaan

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Slide 51: Atheist Arguments Question 6: How can we believe in the existence of God if we don’t even know what His essence is?

# Slide 65: Answer to Question No.6 - We are not debating about God’s Essence, we are debating about His existence. - Just as I can know that a painter exists by looking at the painting, I can also know if God exists by looking at the creation.





Slide 53: Atheist Arguments Question 8: You say that the universe cries out for a designer. Well, who designed the designer?



# Slide 67: Answering Question No. 8 - It is not relevant to have an explanation for the explanation. - Doing such a thing would lead to an infinite regress of explanations, so that nothing could ever be explained and science would be destroyed.



Slide 52: Atheist Arguments Question 7: There is lack of evidence for the existence of God, thus this implies that this is evidence against the existence of God

# Slide 66: Answering Question No. 7 - Absence of evidence does not necessarily imply evidence of absence. - For the atheist’s argument to be successful, he must illustrate two things: Prove that if God did exist, then we should expect to see (1 .such and such evidence T (2hat he has covered all areas of knowledge possible so .that he is sure that God doesn’t exist There is no reason to believe why people would - .accept God if He did make Himself more manifest



Slide 44: Why Self Sacrifice? As a result of extensive research into animal groups in the 1960s and 1970s, V. C. Wynne-Edwards, a British zoologist, concluded that living things balance their population in an interesting way, which prevents competition for food. Animal groups were simply managing their population on the basis of their food resources. Population was regulated not by elimination of the weak through factors like epidemics or starvation, but by instinctive control mechanisms. In other words, animals controlled their numbers not by fierce competition, as Darwin suggested, but by limiting reproduction. 1) V. C. Wynne-Edwards, \"Self Regulating Systems in Populations of Animals, Science, vol. 147, 26 March 1965, pp. 1543-1548; V. C. Wynne- Edwards, Evolution Through Group Selection, London, 1986.)



# Slide 37: Fossil Record Refutes Evolution - A famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this embarrassing fact: The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find – over and over again – not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another. - A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals that we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the start of Earth's Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago, marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the world's first complex creatures. The large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian and they were as distinct from each other then as they are today. 1) Derek A. Ager. \"The Nature of the Fossil Record.\" Proceedings of the British Geological Association, vol. 87, no. 2, )1976), p. 133. 2) Richard Monestarsky, Mysteries of the Orient, Discover, April 1993, p.40

# Slide 38: Evolution There has developed a general consensus among evolutionists that the evolution of intelligent life, comparable in information processing ability to that of homo sapiens, is so improbable that it is unlikely to have occurred on any other planet in the entire visible universe 1) John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986], p. 133)).