SCIENCE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD — No Contradiction

supposedly give a scientific explanation to all the forces in nature. The 'Theory of Everything' is actually a theory that purports to explain everything. In 1998, CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, launched a project to build the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a high energy particle accelerator that would enable scientists to study subatomic particles. These particles were the basis of the fundamental laws of physics. Their study would help, so it was felt, in establishing a Theory of Everything. The LHC was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories, and at a cost over hundred million dollars. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference, 175 metres beneath the surface of the earth on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. A scientist can deny the existence of a Creator, but it is impossible for him to deny the signs of the Creator in His creation. Almost a century has now passed in the search for this Theory of Everything, or, rather, an explanation of everything, but yet scientists have not succeeded in this. Any scientific formula can never be an answer to such a question. Missing Link On the issue of belief in God and Science, a more appropriate statement could be as follows: Although the God that religion presents as a matter of faith is not a subject of scientific study, scientific discoveries are indirectly an academic affirmation of this belief. Science has not proved the existence of God directly, but it would be true to say that Science has accumulated the data to prove the existence of God. In the standard model of Science, there is a missing link. The scientific model explains the ‘action’, but it does not show the ‘actor’. On the other hand, in the model of the universe that the Quran proposes, both the ‘action’ and the ‘actor’ are present. In other words, the Quran explains the cause as well as the causative factor. Where Science acknowledges the ‘action’ (intelligence), then, by extrapolation, there can be no reason for Science not to accept the ‘actor’ (mind). o