Studying Atheism
Random selection does not mean “by chance”. Random selection means only the right mutation survives. It’s like out of many jigsaw puzzle pieces, only the right one fits. That’s how the nature works, right? (e.g. only one of the sperms does the job). It doesn’t work the way many theist have understood it. So there is a designers mind that atheist believe is working behind the “natural selection” and they don’t find it an “intelligent” designer though as they foolishly point out many faults in the design despite insisting there is no purpose in creation. They do believe in a supreme power but not in revelation or any kind of communication with mankind as they believe we are too tiny and insignificant to warrant any attention even if there is some kind consciousness. And that’s despite knowing how significant was the first cell – millions of time smaller than us – that triggered life on the planet and yet they believe the nature is busy doing its work i.e. running the universe and all the processes etc and it’s got no business with mankind. And if there was an interest, “why would God hide himself in so many layers”? That’s what Dawkins has planned to tell God if ever he meets Him after death. So most likely he’s gonna escape the hell despite being an atheist. 🙂 The likes of Richard Dawkins love to talk about a possibility of existence of a supreme power but not the false gods who come on earth to die on the cross or the one who slay apostates. That’s their problem and that’s our problem too, right? The atheist are far closer to Islam than any other ideology or religion on Earth. That’s because they have rejected false gods (the first condition in Islam) and have accepted a supreme power (the 2nd condition) but just not sure if He’s talking to us. This is where you can go deeper if you choose atheism as a subject.
Yes brother Umer I do not disagree with you. My only concern is that when we say science doesn’t know and imply that religion does, this isn’t true at all. If religion say God created matter, taught idea of Justice etc, it remains a claim and only claim with 0 objective evidence. Just because science can not explain these things doesn’t mean religion can. Religion talks about metaphysics but the evidence has to come from this physical world and our reasoning based on physical and social sciences. We can not find gaps in science and claim religion knows, the god of gaps analogy. Atheism by No means answers anything. all the “whys” of morality, justice, beauty etc are termed evolutionary and hence without any meaning.
Not at all angry brother I am discussing atheism and not science and it’s applications and shortcomings that’s why I didn’t answer the window analogy except identifying that it’s not conscious Science is not equal to atheism but a tool to understand this universe If science can’t explain something doesn’t mean religion can For example Science say that we don’t know how life originated and we say God did it. It adds nothing objective but mere conjecture. Even with ur sanity check ( not sure what it means) it remains a conjecture In world of reason, conjecture/belief is not evidence of any sort. I see that Atheism is finding evidence (may be false evidence) in every sphere of knowledge and religion is being reduced to superstitions and rituals to get married, die and some holidays