hi Ted., I am not sure "Quran says so hence I believe" is a right attitude , right path way to search the truth,
I am sure Quran says and also many other religious scriptures say same thing .. same nonsense ., you know such as
........ ...god can create life. god created the stars, planets and earth... god creates people ... god creates every thing ... god create shit, god creates shit in the heads of people, god creates criminals ....... etc..etc..
all that nonsense is same to every faith head but I was under the impression that YOU ARE NOT A FAITH HEAD., and moreover you are searching for truth., So don't you want search the truth? or you just want to believe in what some book says?? Anyways how does your god create things? what are the processes,mechanisms behind this god and its creation? don't you want to enquire about it??
You need to give this more thought.
We need to confirm the claims in the Quran. Many people wrongly assume that planets and stars form via the force of gravity. Given what we know about gravity that should be the natural explanation. It's not.
We know a great deal about current life forms. We can study it in-depth. We should be able to create life easily since it occurs in abundance naturally. We have found it's not possible to create life. On top of that the challenge is to create any kind of life form. It does not have to something like the life we know of. For example give a robot life.
At the end of the day you need to draw a line somewhere. Otherwise you will never be able to convince yourself there is God, If a person is in hell and someone says it's God who put him there his response may be that where is the evidence? How do I know it's God who put me here, I never saw him. Maybe it's all an illusion/hallucination?
So the question is where do you draw the line. What evidence do you need? Do you need to see ghosts, angels, the dead being brought to life, etc. What is it. And when you see all these how do you verify them. Would not the atheists want to do experiments?
Someone dead is brought back to life. Believer says God did it. Atheist says there is no evidence of this, it's a God of the gaps argument because we simply don't know the science of how this person was brought to life after being dead,
An angel descends to earth. Believer says God sent him. Atheist says this a life form from another planet, an alien. Atheist says nothing special, just another life form. Angel says he can give life to the dead through the power of God. Atheist says angel and his God is simply more technologically advanced life form as they have existed for millions of years.
So where do you draw the line?
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