Weeks back I was walking in Desert Safari in Dubai and found a watch. We know a watch consists of glass, plastic and metal. Glass comes from sand, plastic from oil, and metal extracted from the ground – all these components are found in the desert. Would you believe me if I tell you the watch formed itself?
This is how it formed itself: The Sun shone, the wind blew, lightning struck, the oil bubbled to the surface and mixed with the sand and metal, and over millions of years the watch came together by random or natural coincidences. Will your intellect still believe me?
Ok, you believe the universe is finite and has a beginning. Where did the universe ultimately come from?
Our experience in this life and simple logic tell us that something that has a beginning does not simply come from nothing, nor can something create itself.
We can reason that a higher “being” created the universe. This “being” must be powerful and intelligent as it brought the whole universe into existence and created the ‘laws of science’ which govern it. We can also reason that this “being” is timeless and spaceless, because time, space and matter began at the creation of the universe. All of these attributes make up the basic concept of God.
Ok, you ask “Who created God?” God, the Creator, is different to His creation. Unlike the universe and the rest of creation, God is eternal, has always existed and has no beginning.
Many features in this universe clearly indicate it to be specially designed to support life, such as the earth’s distance from the sun; the thickness of the earth’s crust; the speed at which the earth revolves; the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere; and even the earth’s tilt. If these measurements were slightly different to what they currently are, life could not exist. Right?
In the same way that a watch has an intelligent maker to keep accurate time, so too must the earth have an intelligent maker to keep accurate time around the Sun. Could this occur by itself?
Are we only here for 70 or so years, and that’s it? Or is there more to life? Are we just advanced apes with no ultimate purpose? Are we material beings with only physical needs or do we also have spiritual needs?
Ok, for you who are genuine and still undecided about God, my advice is to sincerely ask for the following: “God, if you exist, please guide me.” Just do it. You might be surprised by the results!
“Were they created from nothing, or did they create themselves?”
Quran 52:35.
28th November, 2019.