Universe With God
English book, p. 152
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
by philosophers like Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, and others. This process continued further, and one often hears this argument today, too. I have analyzed this objection of certain atheists: if God created the universe, then who created God? According to my study, 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 Mill’s day and age, man’s knowledge was confined inside a limited scientific ‘shell’ or ‘womb,’ just like an infant inside the shell of his mother’s womb does not know the world outside. But now, there have been significant advances in man’s scientific knowledge of the universe that testify to the existence of the Creator. The situation is that before us, an entire universe is present. We can see it. We are experiencing it. And so, we are compelled to accept the existence of the universe. Even if a person does not accept the existence of God, he does accept the universe’s existence. Now, one scenario is that a person regards the universe, whose existence he accepts, as causeless. But such a belief is not possible because, in the universe, all events seem to be coming into being in line with cause and effect, and behind every event, a cause is at work. But the nature of the

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