Spirit of Islam · SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GOD — Seek The Creator

SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GOD — Seek The Creator

Spirit of Islam, Aug 2014, p. 12

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

SCIENCE SPEAKS ABOUT GOD Seek the Creator N ATURE is the subject of science. Science studies nature and discovers those laws through which nature is being governed. In other words, science studies the creation without referring to the Creator. It is not the concern of scientists to discover the Creator. Moreover, this kind of bifurcation is practically impossible. One cannot detach the engineer from the machine, then how can one detach the Creator from the creation? Science discovers the marvels of nature, but the question arises as to who created these marvels? When we try to find out the answer to this question, we cannot help acknowledge the existence of God. One cannot detach the engineer from the machine, then how can one detach the Creator from the creation? There are a number of books on this subject. A recent one is Why Science Does Not Disprove God written by mathematician Amir D. Aczel, who is currently researcher in the history of science at Boston University. The following are excerpts taken from a review on this book by the physicist Alan Lightman: There is plenty of good scientific evidence that our universe began about 14 billion years ago, in a Big Bang of enormously high density and temperature, long before planets, stars and even atoms existed. But what came before? The physicist, Lawrence Krauss in his book discusses the current thinking of physicists that our entire universe could have emerged from a jitter in the amorphous haze of the subatomic world called the quantum foam, in which energy and matter can materialize out of nothing. Krauss’s punch line is that we do not need God to create the universe. The quantum foam can do it quite nicely all on its own. Aczel asks the obvious question: But where did the quantum foam come from? Where did the quantum laws come from? Hasn’t Krauss simply passed the buck? Legitimate questions, but ones we will probably never be able to answer. …Aczel discusses the mysteries of “emergent” phenomena —

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