Arguments of Opponents of Religion

FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD Secondary Cause, Primary Cause The atheists’ naturalistic argument can be answered by asking, “What or Who caused the laws of Nature to come into existence?” Man has indeed discovered various laws of Nature. But the ‘Laws of Nature’ are not the answer to the question in response to which religion has come into being. Religion informs us about the Ultimate Cause that is working behind the universe and that also has brought the Laws of Nature into being, whereas the discovery of the laws of Nature is only related to the external structure of the universe. The ‘Laws of Nature’ are only a secondary cause of the various phenomena they are used to describe; the primary or Ultimate Cause being that Being or Force that caused the laws of Nature to come into being and be just the way they are. And this primary or Ultimate Cause is, in the language of religion, called ‘God.’ Modern science only gives further details of various phenomena in the universe and does not provide an actual or final explanation. The Ultimate Cause All the knowledge of science is related to the ‘what’ of things. The ‘why’ aspect is outside its reach, whereas the ultimate explanation of something relates to this latter aspect, which only religion can answer satisfactorily. One can understand this with the help of an example. A hen lays eggs that have a strong shell. A chick is nourished inside the protective shell of its egg. When the shell breaks, the chick comes out into the world. Now, how does it happen that the shell breaks and the chick, which is not more than a