WHO CREATED GOD?
Spirit of Islam, June 2020, p. 13
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.
Many physicists, cosmologists and scientists have acknowledged that direction and purpose in the formation of the universe are evidences for a Designer, Director and Prime Mover. This in itself establishes direction and purpose in the formation of the universe and consequently these are evidences for a Designer, Director and Prime Mover. Many physicists, cosmologists and scientists have acknowledged this fact. For instance, Paul Davies says, “I concede that the universe at least appears to be designed with a high level of ingenuity. I cannot accept these features as a package of marvels which just happen to be, which exist reasonlessly. It seems to me that there is a genuine scheme of things—the universe is ‘about’ something.” Fine-tuning for Life Our unique planet Earth has been fine-tuned and custom-designed for intelligent life—the Earth’s atmosphere, the Earth’s magnetosphere, Earth’s geophysical history, water, vegetation, its position in the solar system, its galaxy, its orbit, rotational axis, its satellite and a million other features evidently prove this. How can such a formidably complex system of the universe come about without a creative intelligence behind it? How can we refuse to believe in an Organizer of an organized universe? The most elegant, comprehensible and simple explanation for this reality is only possible by accepting an intelligent mind responsible for it. This intelligent mind designed a rational, ordered universe that produces intelligent beings capable of understanding that universe. God especially designed and crafted, through miraculous means, planet Earth, so that it would support life and human beings. The Earth is a product of divine design. Physicist Lawrence Krauss in his book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, treats the question of “First Cause” as a serious argument against God: Ultimately, many thoughtful people are driven to the apparent need for First Cause, as Plato, Aquinas, or the modern Roman Catholic Church might put it, and thereby to suppose some divine being: a creator of all that there is, and all that there ever will be, someone or something eternal and everywhere.

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