God and the Universe
English book, p. 151
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD that science has provided sufficient data as evidence for the existence of God. In the standard model of science, one thing had the status of a missing link: this model reveals an action taking place in the universe, but not the Actor that is ultimately behind it. In contrast, in the model of the universe that the Quran provides, both the Actor—God—and the action—the universe—are present. The Quran highlights the Ultimate or Final Cause of the universe, the Mind behind the universe—the Creator, God. When science is now verifying and attesting to the intelligence evident in the universe, logically, there is no argument for it not to testify to the Mind that possesses this intelligence—the Creator, God. UNIVERSE WITH GOD When an infant is in the protective shell of his mother’s womb, he does not know the world outside. Outside the womb, a world as a whole is present, but the infant has no idea at all of it. The same is valid for man himself. All of man’s information is limited within space and time. Man does not know the realities that are beyond space and time. When British philosopher John Stuart Mill (d. 1873) was in his youth, his father said that belief in God is irrational because if it is said that God created man, then the question arises as to who created God. Mill mentions this in his autobiography. After this, this point began being repeated

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