Quran And Atheistic Arguments
‘اگر آسمان و زمین میں اللہ کے سوا اور معبود ہوتے تو زمین و آسمان درہم برہم ہوجاتے۔ جو باتیں یہ لوگ بناتے ہیں، اللہ مالکِ عرش ان سے پاک ہے۔”،(انبیا:22 ”اللہ نے نہ تو کسی کو (اپنا) بیٹا بنایا ہے اور نہ اس کے ساتھ کوئی اور معبود ہے ایسا ہوتا تو ہر معبود اپنی اپنی مخلوقات کو لے کر چل دیتا اور ایک دوسرے پر غالب آجاتا۔ یہ لوگ جو کچھ (اللہ کے بارے میں) بیان کرتے ہیں اللہ اس سے پاک ہے۔”، (مومنون:91 There are many similarities between different organisms such as chimpanzee have 93% similar DNA to humans, which shows that there is only one creater. Ghamidi sahab explain this during the discussion on evolution. This is from my little knowledge. Umer Qurashi sahab may expain it more clearly.
The verses of the Quran where empirical evidence is provided are specific to the context that they appear in. In other words, the context clarifies why certain evidence is being provided and it’s relation to the point being made. Also there are different audiences that the Quran addresses at different places, and these evidences are what generally those audiences can relate to. I am not sure what you mean by the atheistic argument here because there are several kinds of atheists. If you’re pointing towards contemporary atheists who use science as a basis for their argument, I don’t think that they even have an argument to begin with. What they base their viewpoint on is a belief that’s void of any evidence. Concisely, they say that the laws of physics came into existence out of nothingness , and that this entire universe got created by those laws. Then they go through an infinite cycle of attempting to define and redefine obvious terms such as law and nothingness , and build atop extravagant theories complex enough to impress a layman. They’re, however, never able to establish the basis of their foundational assumptions – and it’s quite conceivable because imagination doesn’t have to have any basis. Quran on the other hand compels it’s readers to accept or reject beliefs on the basis of evidence. It uses empirical evidence (both internal and external), appeals to our faculties of reason and rationality, and uses those facts from the history as evidence that it’s primarily addresses were well aware of. In conclusion, when one truly understands the perspective of the Quran, all other epistemological theories, no matter how complex, seem primitive in comparison.