there has been a very major piece of
research done recently in Oxford by the
Society for mind and anthropology or
anthropology and mind who did a 1.9
million pounds they spent on this
research as far as I remember there were
over 60 academics involved in this
research from all over the world so this
was a major piece of scientific research
in the realm of human psychology and
anthropology and after many years they
concluded that the belief in God the
religious belief and the belief in
afterlife is not something that is
taught by our parents it is something
instinctive and natural in the human
being that in fact the very human
thought process itself is shaped by
religious values this is very
significant because of course this
agrees with exactly what Islam has been
saying that every human being is born
upon the fitrah in other words every
human being as the prophet muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasalam said is
naturally inclined to worship God alone
and as the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam said it is only our parents that
make us diverge away from that natural
inclination to single out God for
worship and make us followers of
different religions or no religion at
all so this is the nature of the human
being and it's interesting that this
very extensive piece of research has
confirmed that and we all have instincts
animals by the way operate
on instinct what makes the human being
different from the animal is that the
human being has reason we have the
ability to reason
whereas animals they rely upon instincts
and we have also what we call reflex
action so for example if I pick up
something that is hot or shallow for an
but something that is very hot I don't
have to think there's no process in my
brain saying this is very hot I must
drop here no you do it instinctively you
drop it instinctively this is a reflex
action this is something that is not
rational this is just something that is
part of our trinsic makeup in order to
keep on holding something hot you have
to train yourself you have to learn to
bypass your normal instinct in which a
human being can do we can learn to
bypass those reflex actions and force
ourselves to hold a hot coal this is
unique to human beings consciousness
that ability to use our mind to override
our instinctive reactions however this
instinct is there and the belief in God
is instinctive what is the proof what is
the proof of this it's very interesting
that one of the what we could call the
high priests of atheism Richard Dawkins
was recently on a TV show and he was
being interviewed and that he was saying
in this interview you know most
Christians they don't know anything
about their Bible they just don't know
about their book so the interviewer said
ok that's interesting you believe mr.
Dawkins you're a big fan of Darwin
aren't you of course it's Darwin's very
important um could you tell me the full
title of his book the origin of the
species and Richard Dawkins died again
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mmm Oh God that he said Oh God
so he founded this atheist or this
renowned atheist is being put in a
difficult situation he doesn't know the
answer and he ends up going Oh God
like oh god help me what am I gonna say
and this is a guy who says he doesn't
believe in God
but you're saying they're not Christians
even if they think of themselves as
Christian you you know what they are
even even though they tell my mom Chris
I'm not presenting my opinion here this
press release is offered to people to
look down it and say look these people
who call themselves Christians actually
don't read the Bible don't go to church
don't believe Jesus was the son of God
don't even know what the first book of
the New Testament is to you to make up
your mind whether you think they're
Christian don't ask me my opinion is not
relevant if I said to you what is the
full title of the Origin of Species I'm
sure you could tell me that yes I could
gomen on the Origin of Species with God
on the Origin of Species there there is
a subtitle the with respect to the print
the preservation of favoured races in
the fight in the struggle you are the
hope of Darwinism if you asked people
who believed in evolution what that
question and you came back and said 2%
got it right it were terribly easy for
me to go they don't really believe it
after all it's just not fair to ask
people these questions they
self-identify as Christians and I think
you should respect that
and this is a guy who says he doesn't
believe in God and actually this is
instinctive this is instinctive Allah
gives the example in the Koran Allah
gives the example in the Quran of those
people who go on a boat and they go on
the boat expecting to do trade and
expecting to buy and sell there go onto
this boat and when they go out to sea
there is a great storm and Allah
describes in the Quran how the waves are
coming over them like the roof of the
tent can you imagine it huge waves
crashing down on top of you now for a
bit the human being will think okay the
boat is going to save me the boat is
well built the boat will save or maybe
they think that captain will save me but
when the boat starts to disintegrate to
break apart and the captain gets washed
over shore what do they do
what do they do they start calling upon
the Creator they start saying old god
help me and when they say O God it is
not the point the name is not important
whether they say God or Allah or hooda
or whatever no the name is not important
it's the concept that is important what
are they calling to conceptually
conceptually in their minds they are
cooling upon the being which they know
instinctively has power over everything
in the universe