English book · God and the Universe

Science and Theology

English book, p. 144

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

According to modern thinkers, the cause of all these problems is that both religion and modern science, which provide a conception of the universe, demand an agency outside the universe that is managing the universe. However, acknowledging a designer who existed before the universe to account for the direction of the universe is not an explanation. This explanation immediately raises the question, ‘Who designed the designer?’ If there is an ultimate meaning to life, as I believe, the answer should be found within nature itself, not outside of it. The universe could be a precise cosmos, but if so, it has made itself so.” After analyzing the article, I would like to offer clarification. In theology (ilahiyaat), the modern mind is a victim of severe confusion. We have an idea of this from this article by Professor Paul Davies. Atheist philosophers have been asking: if, according to religious belief, God made the universe, then who created God? But this question is illogical. It is a negation of logic. Furthermore, this objection is based on an apparent contradiction in thinking. This is because the question comes from those who believe in the universe without a Creator, but so far as their belief in a Creator is concerned, they need a Creator of the Creator. Yet, if the universe’s existence is possible without a Creator, then the existence of the Creator, too, should be possible without a Creator. In the above article, Paul Davies explores the fine-tuning in the universe and analyses the extraordinary balance

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