Discovering the Quran

A more appropriate statement would be that the God presented in religion is not the direct subject of science, but scientific discoveries indirectly give affirmation of belief in God. Science has not proven God’s existence, but it has provided a lot of data that gives evidence of God’s existence. In the scientific explanation of the universe, there is a missing link. This interpretation of the universe describes ‘actions’ but there is no knowledge about the ‘actor’ causing the action. On the contrary, the explanation of the universe given by the Quran includes both the actor and the action. In other words, the Quran tells us about both the cause and the causative factor. If science is accepting that there is action or intelligence in the universe, then logically it is not right that there should not exist an actor or intelligence behind this action. Although Albert Einstein was born in a Jewish family, after his scientific study he developed doubts regarding God’s existence. Just a year before his death in 1954 he had written a letter to the Israeli philosopher Eric B. Gutkind. One of the sentences from the letter reads: “The word God was nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.” What Einstein had termed ‘human weakness’ is not really a matter of weakness, rather it is a great attribute of a human being. It can be more properly phrased thus: man is an ‘explanation-seeking’ animal. This trait of a human being is at the basis of all kinds of developments. It is because of this characteristic that man tries to understand phenomena and thus achieve success by putting to use the knowledge thus gained. If human beings did not possess this quality, the entire modern civilization would have been left undiscovered to this day. The Majesty of God