Plato
Aristotle Greek
philosophers who use their minds to to
understand the world around them what
did they conclude that there was no God
no Aristotle and Plato and others
concluded that there has to be a God so
if it was so illogical how could the
masters of logic come to the conclusion
that there has to be a God so we say no
no it's you saying there's no God that
is in a state of illogic
you know you are illogical your ideas
are illogical logic points to the
absolute existence of God it has to be a
God
so we can take them they say okay what
is your evidence what is the what is the
proof what how do you logically come to
the idea that there is a
God we can take it from what they call
the imma principle we know in Islamic
law means
what consens of agreement you know
people agree all the people agree on
something becoming Islamic law well this
was really in the case of the sahaba and
you know leading Scholars Etc so using
this principle ofar we say if you travel
around the world everywhere people
believe in God everywhere Every Nation
historically people have believed in God
this is something which seems to
be byar everybody has a belief in God
sure the belief might be distorted
changed you know variation but the basic
belief in a Supreme Being is there
everywhere and recently that is in
1997 scientists in the University of
California at Berkeley they analyzing
the brain of patients who have um
various mental ailments connected with
seizures you know brain uh anomalies or
abnormal activities of the brain which
cause them to to pass out and go into
Comas and these type of things they were
studying people with these cases probing
different parts of the brain they found
that these people in the course of their
experiments that um there was a portion
of the brain in the frontal lobe where
if this was
stimulated the people experienced uh
religious uh powerful religious feelings
a sense of God and the presence of God
this kind of thing you know that uh when
they had seizures and it fected those
areas they had these experiences so from
those experiments and it's in your notes
there on page 57 They concluded that
there was in the brain what they called
a God
Spot a god nodule or they call it that
the brain is hotwired for belief in God
this is their own
scientists who have come to that
conclusion for us
the other logical argument which we
usually find in the Quran is the
argument from
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design will they not look at the the the
camels and how they were created Allah
created the camel in a special
way in a way that he can cross the
desert he can retain liquids in his His
Hump you know so that he can go without
water for days on end the way his feet
are made to walk on the hot Sands which
normally you couldn't handle no other
animal could handle it you know so many
different characteristics which make the
camel
unique designed specifically for the
desert and Allah says look at that
design he's saying that had you had to
have a Creator you had to have somebody
who is going to design that this is not
something which comes about by
accident and this is the argument really
of you know many of the Christian
philosoph opers Etc is around the
argument from design that design
indicates a
designer of course the counterargument
is that no design could come from Chance
by from accident you know sometimes you
if you're painting you splatter some
paint on the wall somebody say oh that
hey does not look like a hand you know
does not look like a head or a foot or
something like this so splattering paint
on the wall you can get some things
which look like things you know design
things but we say to them okay that can
happen but do you think that you could
mix
paint different colors of paint in a
bucket throw it against the wall right
and how many times you throw it you
throw it a million times or however many
times you want you throw it against the
wall do you think that at anytime you
will accidentally come out with uh
Leonardo when she's uh what's that um
Mona
Lisa you think that's going to happen
Anytime by accident just keep throwing
throwing they say yes yes you have a you
have an infinite amount of time and you
infinite amount of tries and yeah one of
those times you'll get that but you know
this goes against Common Sense this goes
against Common Sense Common Sense tells
you hey the first time you try it the
chances of it happening are
what zero less than
zero and the billionth time that you try
it is it any different than the first
time
no so we say no they usually give the
example that if you put a 100 monkeys in
a cage give them 100 typewriters pieces
of
paper and let them bang away at the keys
with their nose their elbows their toes
anything sit on the keys
whatever eventually one of them is going
to type out for you the whole of the
Quran if you give them Arabic
typewriters the whole Quran from fa to
NAS they usually give the example of the
Bible I'm just giving it in our context
Quran has more significance the chances
of that happening we say zero don't tell
us don't tell us that this is possible
this is not
possible but for them anything is
possible and the whole issue of the Big
Bang this is what they're talking about
isn't it a massive explosion of matter
producing this
world with all the complex organisms and
everything in it from a massive
explosion we say to them listen Common
Sense tells us that explosions produce
chaos they don't produce
order you take atomic bombs you drop
them in a
junkyard right you have a junkyard where
they have bits and pieces of cars you
drop atomic bombs in that
junkyard do you think there's a chance
of one time an atomic bomb exploding in
the junkyard and a Rolls-Royce pops
out door open keys in the ignition
engine purring you just need to just get
in and drive away do you think there's a
chance of that
happening no
but that's what they're saying human
beings who are a billion times more
complex than a Rolls-Royce being
produced by the big
bang that is totally
illogical totally unreasonable that's
why we say for them they try to bring
their thing as a logical thing is no it
goes against all logic and reason when
we see design we assume that it was
created by a designer somebody did
it you're walking on the beach Beach you
see Footprints in the Sand you don't
stop to
think how amazing the tide came in sunk
into the sand and made a footprint look
at that no you automatically assume
somebody walked there ahead of you
that's your common
sense and for the Arabs the ancient
Arabs they used to they they put it you
know in a way say before even the Quran
was revealed they
said that Camel dung indicates the
camel meaning you're riding out on the
desert you come across a clump of camel
dung you don't stop and think how
amazing the sand you know rolled itself
into a little ball and you know some
things fell on it or whatever and here
you got thing looking like a camel dung
no you assume a camel went by and did
his droppings right that is common sense
but they want to say no no maybe the
sand did blow it did roll together
something didn't fall on it and that's
how it happened you know no we say this
is illogical and
unreasonable so the argument from design
indicates really there had to be a
design in the Quran though we do find in
one place a purely logical
argument that goes beyond the concept of
design it goes into creation itself we
find it in Sur verses 35 and
36
that