Arguments of Opponents of Religion

to align with a determined and fixed system named ‘The Laws of Nature’. Following this discovery, the idea that behind the universe, there is an active and powerful personal God running it and caring for human beings began to lose currency. People began attributing to ‘The Laws of Nature’ many of the roles that were earlier attributed to God. For growing numbers of people, especially in the West, the maximum concession they were willing to make was that a God initially set the universe in motion and, after that, had nothing to do with it. And so, in the beginning, people kept believing in God in the capacity of a ‘Prime Mover.’ One scholar came up with the idea that God had made this universe in the same way a watchmaker makes a watch: gathering the watch’s parts, giving them a particular structure, and after that, having no relation with the final product. But later, David Hume (1711-1776) objected, arguing that we have no experience of the world being made. With a watch, we know it has to be created by a watchmaker because we can observe it being made this way and compare it to the making of similar watches to deduce they have similar causes in their creation. However, we have no experience of the universe’s creation (or any other universe’s creation to compare our universe to) and never will; therefore, it would be illogical to infer that our universe has been created by an intelligent Designer in the same way that a watch has been. Nature Itself Is in Need of an Explanation According to atheists, the advancement of science and the spread of knowledge has now shown man the truth of things