God and the Universe

UNIVERSAL EVIDENCE OF GOD AND THE HEREAFTER belief in God makes the meaningfulness of the universe comprehensible for man. AN INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE On March 30, 2008, I met with two British gentlemen. One was the famous journalist Mark Tully, and the other was a Christian scholar, Dr Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston. They wanted to know about Islam, so we had a detailed conversation about different Islam-related subjects. Mr. Tully said that belief in One God is fundamental in the Islamic belief system. He asked if this was just a religious belief or if there was also some scientific proof for God’s existence. I said that in Islam, no article of faith is a mere dogmatic belief. The belief system of Islam is based on the fixed and unchanging principles of Nature. This is what is called the ‘scientific basis’ today. A century ago, Newtonian mechanics prevailed in science, according to which the final unit of matter was the atom. At that time, the atom was considered indivisible and incapable of division. It was also believed that everything that exists is observable. That is why only arguments based on direct evidence or observation were considered valid in science. However, the atom was split due to new research in nuclear science. Now, wave mechanics and quantum physics have replaced