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This sort of proves God. NO WAY this happens naturally.

i searched on a few websites and lots of people agree that there is a god even famous people like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein agreed that there has to be a god and ill past a couple of articles which you should read and see for yourself that God exists..

There are millions of people controlling the traffic on road, sea, and air. Beacons are built. People also build traffic light and radar. Air Traffic Control is built to prevent accident. All vehicles have drivers. Even on airplane there are pilot and co-pilot to make the flight safer. On the ships there are Captain, navigator, and engineers. Yet thousands of accidents happen every year on land, sea, and air. Even though there are many controllers, the accidents still happen.

On the contrary, the Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, and others always revolve for billions of years without single crash. Most scientists believe that the Earth, Sun, and all of the other planets and moons in the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. For billions of years until now the Earth never bump into the Sun, and the Sun never collides with the Moon. There is no mark, police, nor pilots to drive them. Without God, the Controller of the Universe, none of these would happen. Everything is in order because there is God who controls everything. Allah has put orbit for each of those things. If we really think about it then we will know that God exist.

âHe it is who appointed the sun a splendor and the moon stages, that ye might know the number of the years, and the reckoning. Allah created not (all) that save in truth. He detaileth the revelations for people who have knowledgeâ [Quran 10:5]

âIt is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbitâ [Quran:40]

To those arrogant people who deny the existence of God, Allah questions them about His creatures. Who is the creator of sperm and plant? People or God the All Wise Creator?

âHave ye seen that which ye emit?

Do ye create it or are We the creator?â [Quran 56:58-59]

âHave ye seen that which ye cultivate?

Is it ye who foster it, or are We the Fosterer?â [Quran 56:63-64]

âWas it ye who made the tree thereof to grow, or were We the grower?â [Quran 56:72]

In another verse, Allah challenges others to create a fly if they could do it. Men may be could make robots from things that created by Allah. Yet, none could make a fly from nothing nor thing that could reproduce except Allah:

ââ¦Lo! Those on whom ye call beside Allah will never create a fly though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly took something from them, they could not rescue it from him. So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought!â [Quran 22:73]

This is a story proving Allah's existence

The Story of a Scholar and an Atheist

There is one story of a Scholar and an Atheist. Long ago an Atheist did not believe the existence of God. He asked a scholar for a debate about the existence of God. Among the questions are: âDoes God exist?â and âIf God exists then where is God?â

Then they decided when and where the debate takes place.

The Atheist and the villagers were waiting for the scholar, but the scholar did not come right on time. When the Atheist and the villagers thought that the scholar will not come for the debate, then the scholar showed up.

âI am sorry to keep you waiting for so long. But the rain is so heavy so the river floods. The bridge drifted away so I could not cross it. Thank God suddenly there was a big tree fell down. Then the branches cut out by themselves so the trunk was branchless. After that the trunk was cut and a hole was created so it became a boat. So I used the boat and crossed the river,â said the scholar.

The Atheist and the villagers were laughing. The Atheist said to the villagers, âThis scholar is mad. How can a tree became a boat by itself with no one made it? How can a boat exist with no maker who made it?â

The villagers were laughing out loud.

After the people calmed down, the scholar said, âIf you believe that the boat could not exist without its maker, then how could you believe the earth, sky, and its contents exist without its creator? Which is the most difficult to make? Making a boat or creating the earth, sky, and its contents?

Hearing that, they realized that they trapped with their own statement.

âThen answer my second question,â said the Atheist. âIf God exists, why canât He be seen? Where is God?â The Atheist thought since he cannot see God then God does not exist.

The scholar slapped the Atheistâs cheek hardly so the Atheist felt so much pain.

âWhy did you slap me? Itâs very painfulâ

The scholar asked, âThere is no pain. I cannot see pain. Where is pain?â

âThe pain is here,â the Atheist pointed his cheek.

âNo, I cannot see pain. Do you see the pain?â asked the scholar to the villagers.

The villagers said, âNo!â

âSo, though we cannot see the pain does not mean that the pain does not exist. So is the God. Just because we cannot see the God does not mean that God does not exist. Though we cannot see Him, but we can see His creations.â Said the scholar.

The argument of the scholar is very simple. Yet, the argument that God does not exist just because humanâs sense could not sense the existence of God is very wrong.

And you guys say that why Allah is so unkind or unfair?

Allah tells us that He is Pure, Loving, and absolutely Just in every respect. He says that He is the Best of Judges. He also tells us that the life that we are in is a test. He has created all the things that exist and He has created all that happens as well. There is nothing in this existence except what He has created. He also says in the Quran that He created evil (although He is not evil). He is using this as one of the many tests for us.

Oppression is something that Allah forbids for Himself to do to anyone and He hates it when anyone oppresses someone else. He does have absolute power over everything. He allows sickness, disease, death and even oppression so that we can all be tested in what we do.

"Can you prove there is a God?"

Can you prove that you exist? Yes, of course you can. You merely use your senses to determine that you can see, hear, feel, smell, taste and you have emotions as well. All of this is a part of your existence. But this is not how we perceive God in Islam. We can look to the things that He has created and the way that He cares for things and sustains us, to know that there is no doubt of His existence.

Think about this the next time that you are looking up at the moon or the stars on a clear night; could you drop a drinking glass on the sidewalk and expect that it would hit the ground and on impact it would not shatter, but it would divide up into little small drinking glasses, with iced tea in them? Of course not.

And then consider if a tornado came through a junkyard and tore through the old cars; would it leave behind a nice new Mercedes with the engine running and no parts left around? Naturally not.

Can a fast food restaurant operate itself without any people there? That's crazy for anyone to even think about.

After considering all of the above, how could we look to the universe above us through a telescope or observe the molecules in a microscope and then think that all of this came about as a result of a "big bang" or some "accident?"

King Rameses II's body saved

âBut this day We save thee in thy body that thou mayest be aportent for those after thee. Lo! most of mankind are heedless of Our portents.â [QS 10:92]

Dr. Maurice Bucaille used to be a researcher on Pharaohâs mummy in Egypt. On Ramses II mummy he found something funny. The salt concentration in mummyâs body is very high. He found out the answer later in Al Qurâan. Ramses II is the Pharaoh that drowned by God when he chased Moses into Red Sea!

The Bible only mentioned that Ramses II was drowned. Only Al Qurâan that said the Pharaohâs body was saved by God so it could become the lesson for all of us now!

Remember this, Muhammad lived 3,000 years after the event and there is no information that the Ramses IIâs body was saved since in the Bible there is no such information. The Pharaohâs tomb, Pyramid, for thousands of years buried deep underground and sand. Just at 1817 AD, archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni found the pyramid. But Al Qurâan could mention it because it is the words of God. Not human made.

In Verses 68-69, we are told that it is the female bee that makes honey, a very recent bit of knowledge for humans. We know now that male bees die after mating with the queen and live only for about 90 days. Only female bees survive to be the workers, which gather nectar and make honey. This bit of knowledge could never be known to humans before the invention and use of microscopes. It is another piece of evidence that the author of the Holy Quran could never be a human being about 1428 years ago. Rather, He is the All Knowledgeable One.

[quote]And your Lord inspired the female bees to take (build) its houses (hives) on mountains, trees, and in (people's) gardens

Then (you female bee) eat from all the fruits and (you female bee) follow the ways of your Lord laid down (for you). There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing (cure) for people. In that, (there) is a sign for a people who give thought (Al-Na'hl, 16: 68-69).

And i even said that Isaac newton and Albert Einstein even believed that it was impossible for the universe to be created on its own but by a All powerful being

"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."[Isaac Newton]

Although Albert Einstein never came to belief in a personal God, he recognized the impossibility of a non-created universe.
And his saying:

âSo, though we cannot see the pain does not mean that the pain does not exist. So is the [Flying Spaghetti Monster]. Just because we cannot see the [Flying Spaghetti Monster] does not mean that [the Flying Spaghetti Monster] does not exist. Though we cannot see [it], but we can see [its] creations.â Said the scholar.

I will make a case against any of the Gods in monotheistic religions today, more from a philosophical point of view, since other users have pitched in arguments that lean more heavily towards the scientific method.

The above post is extremely counter-productive, and fallacious on multiple levels. Firstly, it takes random examples to feed into a various analogies, to prove that something wholly unrelated exists. It uses the example that we cannot see pain, yet we know pain exists, similarly, we cannot see God, hence God exists. Yet, I can feel pain through the nerves in my skin, and the bio-chemical reactions that stimulate those nerves. Hence I know pain exists. Yet, none of my five senses, touch, taste, sight, hearing, can detect God. The lack of any detection is certainly not axiomatic and a total confirmation of an object's non-existence, but there is nothing to prove that God exists in that story, hence the flaw in the argument.

Secondly, the story is just as it is, a story, and a very teleological and flimsy one at that. We can criticize substantially the many flaws of the argument being proposed, the argument that the ''unique'' design of our world, for example, the ''earth, sky, and its contents'' as mentioned in the above post points towards the existence of a unique designer. One, we have but glimpsed a small part of our universe, yet we naively, decisively and rather egotistically claim that the whole is flawless, hence a unique designer must surely exist? Such presumption is rather astounding on the part of believers.
Another attack on this teleological argument is that, complexity does not mean there has to be a creator.

A third, very obvious failing in the post, is the liberal and weak usage of analogies (Pain's existence, and God's existence, or the fact that destruction, such as a tornado, does not bring about creation, implies that the Big Bang is false), as an argument that God exists. An analogy at its base level is merely a linguistic tool to more purposely convey and divest meaning. It does absolutely nothing in proving the existence of an object, but to confuse and mislead people. Simply put, it attempts to masquerade and substitute for actual proof, yet falls short. The presenter of an analogy tries his uttermost to demonstrate how two things are alike by pointing out shared characteristics, with the goal of showing that if two things are similar in some ways, they are congruent in all other ways as well. I am loathed to use an analogy as a counterexample, but here goes.

An apple is red. It is delicious. Similarly, a puddle of blood is red. Therefore, blood is delicious. Using this rather ludicrous example, we can show rather effectively, how shallow the poster's comments are.

i searched on a few websites and lots of people agree that there is a god even famous people like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein agreed that there has to be a god and ill past a couple of articles which you should read and see for yourself that God exists..

On the contrary, the Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, and others always revolve for billions of years without single crash.

For billions of years until now the Earth never bump into the Sun, and the Sun never collides with the Moon. There is no mark, police, nor pilots to drive them.

Without God, the Controller of the Universe, none of these would happen. Everything is in order because there is God who controls everything. Allah has put orbit for each of those things. If we really think about it then we will know that God exist.

To those arrogant people who deny the existence of God, Allah questions them about His creatures. Who is the creator of sperm and plant? People or God the All Wise Creator?

In another verse, Allah challenges others to create a fly if they could do it. Men may be could make robots from things that created by Allah. Yet, none could make a fly from nothing nor thing that could reproduce except Allah:

This is a story proving Allah's existence
This is a story
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The argument of the scholar is very simple. Yet, the argument that God does not exist just because humanâs sense could not sense the existence of God is very wrong.

And i even said that Isaac newton and Albert Einstein even believed that it was impossible for the universe to be created on its own but by a All powerful being

Thanks mbbs112 for all of that work - it must have taken quite a bit of time to put together. Not to stomp too hard on your project here, but this is what we in the philosophical community would call 'hand waving'. In short, there are no actual arguments here. To be sure, there are some things which purport to be arguments, but which lack the proper structure.
We can, of course, read some of your comments charitably and try to piece together some arguments. Perhaps the most compelling deals with some of the most important features of our galaxy and of the universe as a whole. How could it be - the argument goes - that such-and-such features could be in just the right arrangement. If things had just been slightly different, then Earth wouldn't be here and matter may not have even been able to form.
This is a fundamental and very interesting question, but not one that we need a god in order to have an answer. The complexity of the universe (as in the scholar/atheist story) and its apparent order (as suggested by some of your earlier posts) might seem to have an answer rooted in some sort of intelligent designer.
But this kind of thinking is incredibly fallacious.
To see this, think about what these kinds of arguments are meant to suggest. I see two possibilities. Either (a) you're just saying something about the surprise and beauty you find in the universe, or (b) you're suggesting that a god is needed in order to explain these features. If it's (a) then what you're saying - while very nice - isn't all that compelling. Yes, the universe is magnificent and wondrous, but this kind of amazement is often held by theists and atheists alike. A god isn't needed in order to appreciate these things, although it's fine if you believe in one.
That leaves us with (b) which is usually the line these kinds of arguments take. But this thinking becomes so problematic that it has its own name - it's called God of the gaps thinking.
The problem is twofold. First, in offering up god as an explanation, we miss out on some important and enlightening features about the universe that lead us to a much deeper understanding. Second, as science offers more and more information on these areas, god becomes relegated. So you suggest that god is needed to explain x. Physicists then offer an explanation for x that doesn't involve god. The upshot is that you - by requiring god for this explanation - have presented a line of argument to disprove the necessity of god.

The lesson here is simple. Let science do its own thing and let religion stay in its realm. If you don't allow religion to say anything about science, then you don't risk science threatening your religious beliefs. This is one of the reasons why we still have theistic scientists, because they recognise the separateness of the two worlds.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

i searched on a few websites and lots of people agree that there is a god even famous people like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein agreed that there has to be a god and ill past a couple of articles which you should read and see for yourself that God exists..

On the contrary, the Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, and others always revolve for billions of years without single crash.

For billions of years until now the Earth never bump into the Sun, and the Sun never collides with the Moon.

To those arrogant people who deny the existence of God,

Allah questions them about His creatures. Who is the creator of sperm and plant? People or God the All Wise Creator?

In another verse, Allah challenges others to create a fly if they could do it. Men may be could make robots from things that created by Allah. Yet, none could make a fly from nothing nor thing that could reproduce except Allah:

This is a story proving Allah's existence

Allah tells us that He is Pure, Loving, and absolutely Just in every respect. He says that He is the Best of Judges.

He also tells us that the life that we are in is a test. He has created all the things that exist and He has created all that happens as well.

Oppression is something that Allah forbids for Himself to do to anyone and He hates it when anyone oppresses someone else.

He does have absolute power over everything. He allows sickness, disease, death and even oppression so that we can all be tested in what we do.

But this is not how we perceive God in Islam. We can look to the things that He has created and the way that He cares for things and sustains us, to know that there is no doubt of His existence.

Think about this the next time that you are looking up at the moon or the stars on a clear night; could you drop a drinking glass on the sidewalk and expect that it would hit the ground and on impact it would not shatter, but it would divide up into little small drinking glasses, with iced tea in them? Of course not.

And then consider if a tornado came through a junkyard and tore through the old cars; would it leave behind a nice new Mercedes with the engine running and no parts left around? Naturally not.

Can a fast food restaurant operate itself without any people there? That's crazy for anyone to even think about.

After considering all of the above, how could we look to the universe above us through a telescope or observe the molecules in a microscope and then think that all of this came about as a result of a "big bang" or some "accident?"

Dr. Maurice Bucaille used to be a researcher on Pharaohâs mummy in Egypt. On Ramses II mummy he found something funny. The salt concentration in mummyâs body is very high. He found out the answer later in Al Qurâan. Ramses II is the Pharaoh that drowned by God when he chased Moses into Red Sea!