Discovering the Quran

The Age of Atheism worrying about teaching the difference between good guys and bad guys in the world but this might be something that infants come to the world with.” Peter Willatts, a lecturer in psychology at Dundee University said: “You cannot get inside the mind of the baby. You cannot ask them. You have to go on what most attract their attention.” “We now know that in the first six months babies learn things much quicker than we thought possible. What they are born with and what they learn is difficult to divide,” he added. (The Times of India, New Delhi, May 2010, p. 17) The Age of Atheism Our present times, in a broad sense, is the age of atheism. Atheism is the ideology of denial of the existence of God. In present times, the West became the intellectual, or ideological leader of the world and, as we know, during the Middle Ages, a serious conflict had arisen between the Church and western scholars. The details of this conflict have been set forth in a book titled The History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science (1874) by J. W. Draper. The age of modern, atheistic thinking dawned in Europe in the nineteenth century. This age was not the result of some scholarly research but was rather the result of reaction. In those times the criterion of the success of academic and scientific research was that it should be totally explainable in secular terms, which would eliminate the instrumentality of God. As a result of this way of thinking, atheism, a nonreligious philosophy, which negated the existence of God, was produced. Man, by his nature, is an explanation-seeking animal. In the ancient age, this explanation was based on supposition.