Why Just One Creator?
Ahmad please read the message with patience, sleep over it for a bit, let it absorb, and then if something is not clear then do ask. The response above already answers your questions.
Ok sir @faisalharoon ‘The basis of religion is not hypothetical concepts.’ But the basis for the existence of God must stand to all arguments and hypothetheses presented to it. ‘Our nature/fitrat tells us that there’s only one Creator. From the harmony of all systems in the universe we also infer that there can only be one Creator.’ If our nature doesn’t conform with our reasoning what will we do? The harmony shouldn’t necessitate singularity in a creator. Why can’t it simply mean the 2 (or 3 or 4 etc) creators worked in harmony? Why, if there is a multitude of creators, would disharmony and anarchy necessarily arise? ‘We have no way of knowing this for certain, except if our Creator Himself tells us that He has partners. His claim, however is that He is alone. Quran comments on shirk and poses a challenge to mushriks that if they have any evidence of partners of God they should bring it forward.’ Where will we get evidence? From the thing we are trying to critically analyse? We don’t have any divine evidence. Even when we accept the Quran, accepting God is a pre-requisite. Otherwise you could just believe a highly intelligent non-human life form wrote it. So we have to designate the attributes of a creator so that we can confirm if what the Quran says can be accepted by reason, and analyse its arguments. Sorry if I’m not understanding a basic concept.
‘The only argument you’re presenting is that since the universe is so complex, there are multiple creators. That’s imagination, because it has no sound evidence. It will become worthy of investigation when you present any evidence for the argument.’ Premise 1: Most complex things require multiple creators. Premise 2: Universe is a complex entity. Argument: Since universe is a complex entity hence it is maybe created by multiple creators. @Afia So I should stop thinking?
I don’t think that you have arrived at any answer. Maybe is just a hypothesis.
The question still remains. How is the Quran’s claim of multiple creators necessarily leading to anarchy substantiated. Sure when greedy humans rule in parallel there is anarchy. But sometimes that’s not the case. And also- we cannot arrive to any conclusive answer which indicates monotheism unless we have divine guidance due to the analysis of the universe being a conjecture based practice (we cannot test or see God).
This argument only kicks in if one makes a claim that they have evidence from experience that humans can assemble themselves in teams with each member having complete autonomy, and still create and sustain greatness. If the basis of the argument is human behavior then the claim should be in accordance as well.
I hope you’re still asking Ghamidi sb, InshaAllah. And I’ll be waiting now more anxiously!