Completing the book What is Islam? and following the previous blog.

Although this belief i s innate and clear, doubts and

misconceptions repeatedly come to humans from all sorts of different sources. In different eras, different forms of confusion may come to

people. Today many p eople are confused over the question of

creationism and evolution. In fact, some even argue that

“creationism” is not sound science while “evolution” is.

Currently, a popular explanation for t he existence of the

cosmos is the big bang theory. In fact, the Microsoft Encarta refers to

it as the “currently a ccepted explanation of the beginning of the

universe. It is quite good of them to refer to it in that manner

because “science” keeps changing its “facts” and explanations. It is

exactly as Allah has described in the above-quoted verse, “Nay, but

they have no firm belief” (52:36). Those who have turned away from

God have to admit that they do not truly know what they believe and

tomorrow their belief may b e completely different from what it is

today because, in reality, it is not built upon something firm.

It seems though that the dispute between the big bang theory

and creationism is more hype than it is substance. The big bang

theory, as the Encarta explains, “proposes that the universe was once

extremely c ompact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic

explosion called the big bang, occurred about 10 billion to 20 billion

years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling.

But this begs the question of who created the matter that was

involved in that big-bang? If that matter still requires a creator, is

there any p roof that the same creator did not create new types of

creatures later in this cosmos?

Of course, there is a much bigger problem in relation to the

big bang theory:

How could such a random explosion lead to the

consistency, excellence and beauty that one sees in this universe?

What, for example, was the beauty and organized cosmos that was set

into motion after Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed?

Amazingly, atheists and materialists still refuse to see what

is obvious to their very souls and make statements that are ludicrous

to say the least. For example, the famed atheist Huxley once actually

stated, “If six monkeys sat at typewriters and banged on the keys for

billions of years, it is not unlikely that in the last pages they wrote we

would find one of the sonnets of Shakespeare. This is the case with

the universe that exists now. It came about as the result of random

forces which played with matter for b illions of years. Waheed

Uddeen Khan, using “materialistic” kind of reasoning has replied to

such a statement quite well: “Mathematics, which has given us the

concept of probability, itself states that it i s mathematically

impossible for t his universe to have come into existence by

accident.”

See you in the next blog to complete the book.

Sources :-

A book for calling people to Islam in English is the book .

"What is Islam?" by Jamal Zarbouzo.