By Saad Omais
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. . . I seriously can’t understand why you
still believe in God.
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Well, if you look
closely into the world around you, you would believe too.
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But that is
science . . . Science and God simply don’t add up.
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No . . . that is
what some scien-tists ‘believe’ is true. In fact, the scientific method,
in one
way or the other, must prove the existence of God.
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How so?
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One example is
the commonly known issue of causation . . .
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Wait … you mean
what Hume said? That there is no such thing as cause and effect
in nature . . .
only events that in the past occurred after each other?
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Well, al-Ghazali
said it much earlier . . . but yes, that is mainly it.
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And then you
would say that God is what is keeping the necessary relationship
between cause
and effect, right?
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Aha.
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But where is your
proof? Has this ever happened?
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It is what people
call miracles.
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Have you ever
seen a miracle?
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Hmm no, but I
believe they are true.
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You are not even
close to convincing me.
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Well, if you
choose to believe that physical laws exist absolutely, that gravity has always
and will always cause things to fall, this leads to the belief that God exists
too.
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Go on.
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Why is there
law instead of nothing? Why are there constants that science assumes never
change?
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Simply, other
universes can exist in which this does not apply: physical laws can be
different
or absent . . . you know it as the multiverse theory.
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You got it wrong:
I’m not saying why physical laws support life in our universe - which , by the way , is the only one we know of... I’m saying why
have laws - anywhere - in the first place?
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That is just the
way it is . . . science cannot answer these questions.
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True, but that is how science proves God’s existence:
if causation is not necessary, God maintains the relationship. If causation is
necessary, physical laws did not originate randomly; God put them there.
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But who said the
world really exists as we see it? Perhaps the whole notion of scientific laws
is a human illusion. Perhaps no laws exist to begin with.
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So what you’re
saying is that to disprove the existence of God, you assume that all we
know about science is false, that our mental capacities are deceiving and
perhaps that even we humans do not exist?
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Yes, that’s what
I’m saying.
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. . . And you
make fun of me for believing in miracles!
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