Chapter1 : Introduction
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A central, common core of Islam, Judaism
& Christianity is the affirmation of the reality of One, and Only One, God.
Adherents of Abrahamic faiths believe that there is a God who created the
universe out of nothing and who has absolute sovereignty over all his creation;
this includes, of course, human beings, who are not only utterly dependent on
this creative power but also sinful and who, or so the faithful must believe,
can only make adequate sense of their lives by accepting, without question,
God's ordinances for them. The varieties of atheism are numerous, but all
atheists reject such a set of beliefs. In philosophy there are three major,
purely rational, arguments for the existence of God that have had a significant
influence on the history of philosophy of religion. A wide variety of arguments
exist which can be categorized as metaphysical, logical, empirical, or
subjective. The existence of God is subject to lively debate both in
philosophy, the philosophy of religion being almost entirely devoted to the
question—and in popular culture. Certain theists acknowledge that belief in the
existence of God may not be amenable to demonstration or refutation, but rests
on faith alone. The atheistic conclusion is that the arguments and evidence
both indicate there is insufficient reason to believe in the existence of God,
and that personal subjective religious experiences are indistinguishable from
misapprehension.
Philosophers and theists have come out with
many popular arguments to support the existence of God: The cosmological
argument argues that there was a "first cause", or "prime
mover" who is identified as God. The teleological argument argues that the
universe's order and complexity are best explained by reference to a creator
God. It starts with a rather more complicated claim about the world, i.e. that
it exhibits order and design. The hypothesis of Intelligent design proposes
that certain features of the universe and of living things are the product of
an intelligent cause. The ontological argument is based on arguments about a
"being greater than which cannot be conceived". The anthropic
argument suggests that basic facts, such as humanity's existence, are best
explained by the existence of God. Some philosophers see the existence of
Qualia (or the hard problem of consciousness) as strong arguments against
materialism and therefore for the existence of material and immaterial
entities. The transcendental argument suggests that logic, science, ethics, and
other serious matters do not make sense in the absence of God, and that
atheistic arguments must ultimately refute themselves if pressed with rigorous
consistency. The atheists believe that existence of God cannot be proved
through science. However the Muslims scholars like Harun Yahya, Dr.Zakir Naik
and many others have done a lot of research work to prove it scientifically,
which forms basis for this paper. Let’s start with the biggest thing, The
Universe.
Chapter-2: Universe Models
Universe: Sign of Creator:
The universe is commonly defined as the totality of
everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars,
galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary
and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature. Scientific observation
of earlier stages in the development of the universe, which can be seen at
great distances, suggests that the universe has been governed by the same
physical laws and constants throughout most of its extent and history. There
are various multiverse theories, in which physicists have suggested that our
universe might be one among many universes that likewise exist.
The universe is immensely large and possibly
infinite in volume. The region visible from Earth (the observable universe) is
a sphere with a radius of about 46 billion light years, based on where the
expansion of space has taken the most distant objects observed. For comparison,
the diameter of a typical galaxy is only 30,000 light-years, and the typical
distance between two neighbouring galaxies is only 3 million light-years. As an
example, our Milky Way Galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years in diameter, and
our nearest sister galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is located roughly 2.5 million
light years away. There are probably more than 100 billion galaxies [1011]
in the observable universe. Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as
ten million [107] stars up to giants with one trillion [1012] stars, all orbiting the galaxy's center of
mass. A 2010 study by astronomers estimated that the observable universe
contains 300 sextillion 3×1013
stars.
The part where the Universe isn't just bigger than
you can possibly comprehend, but according to recent evidence, billions of
times larger than that. What It Says: That the universe is big, so big, that
just that fact, just its mere bigness, is enough to blow your tiny ant mind.
And it just keeps getting bigger. Let’s examine the famous Hubble Ultra Deep
Field image, the most massive photo ever taken. It shows that there are
approximately 10,000 galaxies. Each of those galaxies contains anywhere from
ten million to one trillion stars. The average star is roughly a million times
the size of Earth.
And yet, with all that junk, the Universe is more than 90 percent empty space. All of that, in this tiny photo. A photo that took 400 orbits and 800 exposures to take. And the kicker? The photo covers one thirteen-millionth of the entire night sky.
If you are like us, it leaves you alternately awash
with spiritual wonder and horrified feelings of utter insignificance. Actually
imagining just how infinitesimal you are in the scope of the universe is like
autoerotic asphyxiation: it’s not as pleasant as you would think, and if you do
it wrong you can end up a vegetable. You possibly imagine that much space and
that many planets and stars and atoms smashing together without intelligent
life forming? Now its just a matter of getting around that pesky general
relativity and well be chilling with aliens in no time. Or, like, a million
years.
So all that just said about how big the universe is
(at least 90 billion light years)? That is small beans. The Cosmological
Horizon is here to make your day a whole lot more complicated. Since we can
only observe stellar bodies that have had some effects on us (usually
bombarding us with light), there is an outer limit to what we can see of the
universe. Hence, the observable universe. What about the rest? The parts of the
universe beyond our Starcraft-style fog of war? Well, according to some math we
have no interest in going into, the size of the actual universe is so large
that if the universe we just described (the impossibly, mind-bogglingly large
one) were the size of a quarter, the actual universe would be the size of the
Earth. Level Of Mind Blowingness: The
sound of one hand clapping for a tree falling in the woods while no ones around
except a guy whose skull is wired with C4 explosive. Hence the mere vastness of
universe indicates the greatness of its Great Creator.
The Eternal Universe:
Towards the end of the 19th century,
atheists formulated a world view that they thought explained everything; they
denied that the universe was created saying that it had no beginning but had
existed forever. They claimed that the universe had no purpose but that its
order and balance were the result of chance; they believed that the question of
how human beings and other living things came into being was answered by
Darwinism. They believed that Marx or Durkheim had explained history and
sociology, and that Freud had explained psychology on the basis of atheist
assumptions.
However, these views were later invalidated
in the 20th century by scientific, political and social developments. Many and
various discoveries in the fields of astronomy, biology, psychology and social
sciences have nullified the bases of all atheist suppositions. In his book,
God: The Evidence, The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular
World, the American scholar Patrick Glynn from the George Washington University
writes:
The past two decades of research have
overturned nearly all the important assumptions and predictions of an earlier
generation of modern secular and atheist thinkers relating to the issue of God.
Modern thinkers assumed that science would reveal the universe to be ever more
random and mechanical; instead it has discovered unexpected new layers of
intricate order that bespeak an almost unimaginably vast master design. Modern
psychologists predicted that religion would be exposed as a neurosis and
outgrown; instead, religious commitment has been shown empirically to be a
vital component of basic mental health…
Few people seem to realize this, but by now
it should be clear: Over the course of a century in the great debate between
science and faith, the tables have completely turned. In the wake of Darwin, atheists and
agnostics like Huxley and Russell could point to what appeared to be a solid
body of testable theory purportedly showing life to be accidental and the
universe radically contingent. Many scientists and intellectuals continue to
cleave to this worldview. But they are increasingly pressed to almost absurd
lengths to defend it. Today the concrete data point strongly in the direction
of the God hypothesis. Science, which has been presented as the pillar of
atheist, materialist philosophy, turns out to be the opposite. As another
writer puts it, "The strict materialism that excludes all purpose, choice
and spirituality from the world simply cannot account for the data pour in from
labs and observatories."
Assuming the validity of the old model of an
‘Eternal Universe’, Hugh David Politzer, an American theoretical physicist who
shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, opposed the idea of a creation: The
universe was not a created object, if it were, then it would have to be created
instantaneously by God and brought into existence from nothing. To admit
creation, one has to admit, in the first place, the existence of a moment when
the universe did not exist, and that something came out of nothingness. This is
something to which science can not accede. By supporting the idea of an eternal
universe against that of creation, Politzer thought that science was on his
side. However, very soon, the fact that Politzer alluded to by his words, “if
it is so, we must accept the existence of a creator”, that is, that the
universe had a beginning, was proven.
The Big Bang:
This proof came as a result of the “Big
Bang” theory, perhaps the most important concept of 20th century astronomy. The
Big Bang theory was formulated after a series of discoveries. In 1929, the
American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, noticed that the galaxies of the universe
were continually moving away from one another and that the universe was
expanding. If the flow of time in an expanding universe were reversed, then it
emerged that the whole universe must have come from a single point. Astronomers
assessing the validity of Hubble’s discovery were faced with the fact that this
single point was a “metaphysical” state of reality in which there was an
infinite gravitational attraction with no mass. Matter and time came into being
by the explosion of this mass-less point. In other words, the universe was
created from nothing. In the face of proven scientific facts, atheists have
been squeezed into a corner. Anthony Flew, an atheist professor of philosophy
at the University of Reading and the author
of Atheistic Humanism, makes this interesting confession:
Notoriously,
confession is good for the soul. I will therefore begin by confessing that the
Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological
consensus. For it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof
of what St. Thomas contended could not be proved philosophically;
namely, that the universe had a beginning. So long as the universe can be comfortably
thought of as being not only without end but also without beginning, it remains
easy to urge that its brute existence, and whatever are found to be its most
fundamental features, should be accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although
I believe that it remains still correct, it certainly is neither easy nor
comfortable to maintain this position in the face of the Big Bang story.
Some materialists have a relatively logical
view of this matter. For example, the English materialist physicist, H.P.
Lipson, unwillingly accepts the scientific fact of creation. He writes: I think
…that we must…admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know
that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not
reject that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.
Thus, the fact arrived at finally by modern
astronomy is this: time and matter were brought into being by an eternally
powerful Creator independent of both of them. The eternal power that created
the universe in which we live is God who is the possessor of infinite might,
knowledge and wisdom.
Creation Models: Criticism & Analysis:
It is patently obvious that the Big Bang
means the creation of the universe out of nothing and this is surely evidence
of willful creation. Regarding this fact, some materialist astronomers and
physicists have tried to advance alternative explanations to oppose this
reality. Mention has already been made of the steady state theory and it was
pointed out it was clung to, by those who were uncomfortable with the notion of
"creation from nothingness", despite all the evidence to the contrary
in an attempt to shore up their philosophy. There are also a number of models
that have been advanced by materialists who accept the Big Bang theory but try
to exorcise it of the notion of creation. One of these is the
"oscillating" universe model; another is the "quantum model of
universe". Let us examine these theories and see why they are invalid.
Oscillating Universe Model:
The oscillating universe model was advanced
by the astronomers who disliked the idea the Big Bang was the beginning of the
universe. In this model, it is claimed that the present expansion of the
universe will eventually be reversed at some point and begin to contract. This contraction
will cause everything to collapse into a single point that will then explode
again, initiating a new round of expansion. This process, they say, is repeated
infinitely in time. This model also holds that the universe has experienced
this transformation an infinite number of times already and that it will
continue to do so forever. In other words, the universe exists for eternity but
it expands and collapses at different intervals with a huge explosion
punctuating each cycle. The universe we live in is just one of those infinite
universes going through the same cycle.
This is nothing but a feeble attempt to
accommodate the fact of the Big Bang to notions about an infinite universe. The
proposed scenario is unsupported by the results of scientific research over the
last 15-20 years, which show that it is impossible for such an
"oscillating" universe idea to come into being. Furthermore the laws
of physics offer no reason why a contracting universe should explode again
after collapsing into a single point: it ought to stay just as it is. Nor do
they offer a reason why an expanding universe should ever begin to contract in
the first place.
Even if we allow that there is some
mechanism by which this cycle of contraction-explosion-expansion does take
place, the crucial point is that this cycle cannot go on for ever, as is
claimed. Calculations for this model show that each universe will transfer an
amount of entropy to its successor. In other words, the amount of useful energy
available becomes less each time and every "opening" universe will
open more slowly and have a larger diameter. This will cause a much smaller
universe to form the next time around and so on, eventually petering out into
nothing. Even if "open and close" universes can exist, they cannot
endure for eternity. At some point it becomes necessary for
"something" to be created from "nothing". Put briefly, the
"oscillating" universe model is a hopeless fantasy whose physical
reality is impossible.
Quantum Model of Universe:
The "quantum model of universe" is
another attempt to purge the Big Bang of its creationist implications.
Supporters of this model base it on the observations of quantum (subatomic)
physics. In quantum physics, it is to be observed that subatomic particles
appear and disappear spontaneously in a vacuum. Interpreting this observation
as "matter can originate at quantum level, this is a property pertaining
to matter", some physicists try to explain the origination of matter from
non-existence during the creation of the universe as a "property
pertaining to matter" and present it as a part of laws of nature. In this
model, our universe is interpreted as a subatomic particle in a bigger one.
However this syllogism is definitely out of
question and in any case cannot explain how the universe came into being.
William Lane Craig, the author of The Big Bang: Theism and Atheism explains
why:
A quantum
mechanical vacuum spawning material particles is far from the ordinary idea of
a "vacuum" (meaning nothing). Rather, a quantum vacuum is a sea of
continually forming and dissolving particles, which borrow energy from the
vacuum for their brief existence. This is not "nothing," and hence,
material particles do not come into being out of nothing.
So in quantum physics, matter "does not
exist when it was not before". What happens is that ambient energy
suddenly becomes matter and just as suddenly disappears becoming energy again.
In short, there is no condition of "existence from nothingness" as is
claimed. In physics, no less than in other branches of the sciences, there are
atheist scientists who do not hesitate to disguise the truth by overlooking
critical points and details in their attempt to support the materialist view
and achieve their ends. For them, it is much more important to defend
materialism and atheism than to reveal scientific facts and realities. In the
face of the reality mentioned above, most scientists dismiss the quantum
universe model. C. J. Isham explains that "this model is not accepted
widely because of the inherent difficulties that it poses." Even some of
the originators of this idea, such as Brout and Spindel, have abandoned it.
A recent and much-publicized version of the
quantum universe model was advanced by the physicist Stephen Hawking. In his
book A Brief History of Time, Hawking states that the Big Bang doesn't
necessarily mean existence from nothingness. Instead of "no time"
before the Big Bang, Hawking proposed the concept of "imaginary
time". According to Hawking, there was only a 10-43 second
"imaginary" time interval before the Big Bang took place and "real" time was formed after
that. Hawking's hope was just to ignore the reality of "timelessness"
before the Big Bang by means of this "imaginary" time. Stephen Hawking also tries to advance
different explanations for the Big Bang other than Creation just as other
Materialist scientists do by relying upon contradictions and false concepts. As
a concept, "imaginary time" is tantamount to zero or
non-existence–like the imaginary number of people in a room or the imaginary
number of cars on a road. Stephen Hawking also tries to advance different
explanations for the Big Bang other than Creation just as other Materialist
scientists do by relying upon contradictions and false concepts. Here Hawking
is just playing with words. He claims that equations are right when they are
related to an imaginary time but in fact this has no meaning. The mathematician
Sir Herbert Dingle refers to the possibility of faking imaginary things as real
in math as:
In the language
of mathematics we can tell lies as well as truths, and within the scope of
mathematics itself there is no possible way of telling one from the other. We
can distinguish them only by experience or by reasoning outside the
mathematics, applied to the possible relation between the mathematical solution
and its physical correlate.
To put it briefly, a mathematically
imaginary or theoretical solution need not have a true or a real consequence.
Using a property exclusive to mathematics, Hawking produces hypotheses that are
unrelated to reality. But what reason could he have for doing this? It's easy
to find the answer to that question in his own words. Hawking admits that he
prefers alternative universe models to the Big Bang because the latter
"hints at divine creation", which such models are designed to oppose.
What all this shows is that alternative
models to the Big Bang such as ‘Steady-State’, the ‘Open and Close Universe
Model’, and ‘Quantum Universe Models’ in fact spring from the philosophical
prejudices of materialists. Scientific discoveries have demonstrated the
reality of the Big Bang and can even explain "existence from
nothingness". And this is very strong evidence that the universe is
created by Allah, a point that materialists utterly reject.
An example of this opposition to the Big
Bang is to be found in an essay by John Maddox, the editor of Nature (a
materialist magazine), that appeared in 1989. In "Down with the Big
Bang", Maddox declares the Big Bang to be philosophically unacceptable
because it helps theologists by providing them with strong support for their
ideas. The author also predicted that the Big Bang would be disproved and that
support for it would disappear within a decade. Maddox can only have been even
more discomforted by the subsequent discoveries during the next ten years that
have provided further evidence of the existence of the Big Bang. Some
materialists do act with more common sense on this subject. The British
Materialist H. P. Lipson accepts the truth of creation, albeit "unpleasantly",
when he says:
If living matter
is not, then caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation,
how has it come into being?…I think, however, that we must…admit that the only
acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists,
as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject that we do not like if the
experimental evidence supports it.
In conclusion,
the truth disclosed by science is this: Matter and time have been brought into
being by an independent possessor of immense power, by a Creator. Allah, the
Possessor of almighty power, knowledge and intelligence, has created the
universe we live in.
Allah says: “And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily,
it is We Who are steadily expanding it”. (Qur'an, 51:47) “Do not the
Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one
unit of Creation) before We clove them asunder? (Big Bang) We made from water
every living thing. Will they not then believe?”(Qur’an;21:30), “Moreover He Comprehended in His design the sky
and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth: "Come ye
together willingly or unwillingly. "They said: "We do come (together)
in willing obedience."(Qur’an;41:11);“Who hath created and further given
order and proportion” (Qur’an;87:2).
Random Universe:
A second atheist dogma rendered invalid in
the 20th century by discoveries in astronomy is the idea of a
‘Random Universe’. The view that the matter in the universe, the heavenly
bodies and the laws that determine the relationships among them has no purpose
but is the result of chance, has been dramatically discounted. For the first
time since the 1970’s, scientists have begun to recognize the fact that the
whole physical balance of the universe is adjusted delicately in favor of human
life. With the advance of research, it has been discovered that the physical,
chemical and biological laws of the universe, basic forces such as gravity and
electro-magnetism, the structure of atoms and elements are all ordered exactly
as they have to be for human life. Western scientists have called this
extraordinary design the “Anthropic Principle”. That is, every aspect of the
universe is designed with a view that makes the
existence of intelligent life inevitable.
Anthropic Principle:
The basics of the “Anthropic Principle” may
be summarized the as follows:
·
The speed of the first expansion of the
universe (the force of the Big Bang explosion) was exactly the velocity that it
had to be. According to scientists’ calculations, if the expansion rate had
differed from its actual value by more than one part in a billion billion, then
the universe would either have recollapsed before it ever reached its present
size or else have splattered in every direction in a way never to unite again.
To put it another way, even at the first moment of the universe’s existence
there was a fine calculation of the accuracy of a billion billionth. If the
rate of expansion of universe would have been less or more than the size of a
sand particle the universe would have not existed as is now.
·
The four physical forces in the universe
(gravitational force, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, and
electromagnetic force) are all at the necessary levels for an ordered universe
to emerge and for life to exist. Even the tiniest variations in these forces
(for example, one in 1039, or one in 1028; that
is—crudely calculated—one in a billion billion billion billion), the universe
would either be composed only of radiation or of no other element besides hydrogen.
·
There are many other delicate adjustments
that make the earth ideal for human life: the size of the sun, its distance
from the earth, the unique physical and chemical properties of water, the
wavelength of the sun’s rays, the way that the earth’s atmosphere contains the
gases necessary to allow respiration, or the Earth’s magnetic field being
ideally suited to human life.
This delicate balance is one of the most
striking discoveries of modern astrophysics. The well known astronomer, Paul
Davies, writes in the last paragraph of his book The Cosmic Blueprint, “The
impression of Design is overwhelming”. In an article in the journal Nature, the
astrophysicist W. Press writes, “There is a grand design in the Universe that
favors the development of intelligent life.” The interesting thing about this
is that the majority of the scientists that have made these discoveries were of
the materialist point of view and came to this conclusion unwillingly. They did
not undertake their scientific investigations hoping to find a proof for God’s
existence. But most of them, if not all of them, despite their unwillingness,
arrived at this conclusion as the only explanation for the extraordinary design
of the universe.
In his book, The Symbiotic Universe the
American astronomer, George Greenstein, acknowledges this fact: How could this
possibly have come to pass [that the laws of physics conform themselves to
life]? …As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some
supernatural agency—or, rather Agency—must be involved. Is it possible that
suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the
existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially
crafted the cosmos for our benefit?
By beginning his question with “Is it
possible”, Greenstein, an atheist, tries to ignore that plain fact that has
confronted him. But many scientists who have approached the question without
prejudice acknowledge that the universe has been created especially for human
life. Materialism is now being viewed as an erroneous belief outside the realm
of science. The American geneticist, Robert Griffiths, acknowledges this fact
when he says, “If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the philosophy
department. The physics department isn’t much use.”
In his book Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws
of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, which examines how physical,
chemical and biological laws are amazingly calculated in an “ideal” way with a
view to the requirements of human life, the well-known molecular biologist,
Michael Denton writes: The new picture that has emerged in twentieth-century
astronomy presents a dramatic challenge to the presumption which has been
prevalent within scientific circles during most of the past four centuries:
that life is a peripheral and purely contingent phenomenon in the cosmic
scheme.
In short, the idea of a ‘Random Universe’,
perhaps atheism’s most basic pillar, has been proved invalid. Scientists now
openly speak of the collapse of materialism. The supposition whose falsity God
reveals in the Qur’an: “We did not create heaven and earth and everything
between them to no purpose. That is the opinion of those who disbelieve…”
(Qur’an; 38: 27) was shown to be invalid by science in the 1970’s.
Chapter-3: Quantum Entanglement
The God Effect!
Mysteries of Quantum Physics lead to God:
“To God belongs
the Mystery of the heavens and the earth. And the Decision of the Hour (of
Judgment) is as the twinkling of an eye, or even quicker: for God hath power
over all things.” (Qur’an; 16:77).
If two electrons are created together, they are
forever entangled, regardless of the distance between the two electrons; a
change in quantum spin in one electron will immediately cause the other
electron to change spin as well.
The part where you jiggle an electron on one side
of the universe and an invisible force traverses millions of light years and
smacks another electron into wiggling instantaneously, which is about a million
years faster than is technically possible without time travel. In theory, you
could separate two electrons by as much space as you wanted (say, the breadth
of the universe), and they are still linked in such a way that actions taken on
one would affect the other instantaneously. Meaning information is being
transmitted at speeds faster than light. Meaning, if you want to really go
nuts, time travel. And though the party pooping scientists have been busy
coming up with limitations on the kind of information that could be
transmitted, no one has yet been able to disprove the theory that there is an
invisible force in the universe capable of affecting matter millions of
light-years away instantly. So at Big Bang there was a point in the past in
which every atom in the universe was condensed into a singularity. Which means
everything is quantumly entangled. Some scientists have even gone so far as
to claim that quantum entanglement shows that there is no such thing as space,
and that everything in the universe is still touching.
Here is an other explanation:
When a photon (photon is a force carrier particle, usually polarized
laser light) passes through matter, it will be absorbed by an electron.
Eventually, and spontaneously, the electron will return to its ground state by
emitting the photon. Certain crystal structures increase the likelihood that
the photon will split into two photons, both of them with longer wavelengths
than the original. Keep in mind that a longer wavelength means a lower
frequency, and thus less energy. The total energy of the two photons must equal
the energy of the photon originally fired from the laser (conservation of
energy). When the original photon
splits into two photons, the resulting photon pair is considered entangled.
The process of using certain crystals to split incoming photons into
pairs of photons is called parametric
down-conversion. Normally the
photons exit the crystal such that one is aligned in a horizontally polarized
light cone, the other aligned vertically. By adjusting the experiment, the
horizontal and vertical light cones can be made to overlap. Even though the
polarization of the individual photons is unknown, the nature of quantum
mechanics predicts they differ. To
illustrate, if an entangled photon meets a vertical polarizing filter, the
photon may or may not pass through. If it does, then its entangled partner will
not because the instant that the first photon's polarization is known, the
second photon's polarization will be the exact opposite. It is this instant
communication between the entangled photons to indicate each other's
polarization that lies at the heart of quantum entanglement. This is the
"spooky action at a distance" that Einstein believed was
theoretically implausible.
Quantum events obey the laws of quantum
theory, which governs the behaviour of minute objects like atoms and subatomic
particles, including photons of light. By contrast with the laws of
''classical'' physics (which apply to the relatively large objects of the
everyday world), quantum physics often exhibits behaviour that seems
impossible. The connections that persist between distant but entangled
particles are ''one of the deep mysteries of quantum mechanics. 'These
connections are a fact of nature proven by experiments, but to try to explain
them philosophically is very difficult. Albert Einstein sneered at the very
possibility of such a thing, calling it ''spooky action at a distance.''
Scientists still (somewhat shamefacedly) speak of the ''magic'' of ''quantum
weirdness.'' And yet all experiments in recent years have shown that Einstein
was wrong and that action at a distance is real.
In the early 1930s, Einstein had problems with the
whole of quantum physics, which is ironic given that it was partially based on
his Nobel Prize winning paper on the photoelectric effect. What he didn’t like
was the way quantum particles don’t have fixed values for their properties
until they are observed. Why? Einstein couldn’t relate to a universe where
probability ruled! That’s why he famously said that "Der Herrgott würfelt
nicht!" or "The Lord doesn’t play dice!" Einstein believed that
underneath these mathematical probabilities were fixed hidden realities that we
just couldn’t see. That was why he, Podolsky and Rosen dreamed up the idea of
what we now call "Quantum Entanglement" in 1935. It was to show that
either quantum theory was incomplete, because it said there was no hidden
information, or it was possible to instantly influence something at a distance.
As that seemed incredible, he thought it showed that quantum theory was
incorrect the way it had been presented with probabilistic mathematics. Quantum
entanglement is at the heart of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox
developed in 1935.
It did take a long time to prove that Quantum
Entanglement truly existed. It wasn’t until the 1980s that it was clearly
demonstrated. But it has been shown without doubt that this is the case. In 1982, at the university of Paris, a research
team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the
most important experiments of the 20th century. Aspect and his team discovered
that: under certain circumstances
subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate
with each other regardless of the distance separating them. The problem with this discovery is that it
violates Einstein’s long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster
than the speed of light.
In 1935 a famous paper by Albert Einstein, Boris
Podolsky and Nathan Rosen challenged the quantum theory prediction that
entangled particles could remain instantly in touch with each other. One of
their objections was based on the speed limit imposed by Einstein's Special
Theory of Relativity: nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
Einstein and his colleagues preferred a more intuitive explanation of the
simultaneous correlation between entangled particles, based on the idea that
the match between them is ordained by their identical antecedents. The
behaviour of each particle, they argued, is the product of hidden ''local''
factors, not by spooky long-distance effects. But again and again in recent
years, increasingly sensitive experiments have decisively proved that
Einstein's explanation was wrong and quantum theory is correct.
Since the 1970's, physicists have been testing a
prediction of quantum theory that ''entangled'' particles continue to
communicate with each other instantaneously even when very far apart. Entangled particles are identical entities
that share common origins and properties, and remain in instantaneous touch with
each other, no matter how wide the gap between them. Past experiments on
entangled particles were carried out over distances of 100 yards or less. By
showing that the link between two entangled particles survives even when they
are seven miles apart, Dr. Gisin set a dramatic distance record.
The twin-photon experiment by Dr. Nicolas Gisin of
the University of Geneva and his
colleagues in June 1997 was the most spectacular demonstration yet of the
mysterious long-range connections that exist between quanta events, connections
created from nothing at all, which in theory can reach instantaneously from one
end of the universe to the other.
In essence, Dr. Gisin sent pairs of photons in
opposite directions to villages north and south of Geneva along optical fibers
of the kind used to transmit telephone calls. Reaching the ends of these
fibers, the two photons were forced to make random choices between alternative,
equally possible pathways. Since there was no way for the photons to
communicate with each other, ''classical'' physics would predict that their
independent choices would bear no relationship to each other. But when the
paths of the two photons were properly adjusted and the results compared, the
independent decisions by the paired photons always matched, even though there
was no physical way for them to communicate with each other. In principle, it
should make no difference whether the correlation between twin particles occurs
when they are separated by a few meters or by the entire universe. This research
is interesting not only from a scientific and philosophical point of view, but
because of a very practical consequence: possible completely secure code could
be created.
The Measurement or Observation:
Effects on Behavior
of Entangled Particles:
One of the weird aspects of quantum mechanics is
that something can simultaneously exist and not exist; if a particle is capable
of moving along several different paths, or existing in several different
states, the ‘Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Mechanics’ allows it to travel
along all paths and exist in all possible states simultaneously. However, if
the particle happens to be measured by some means, [observation or instrumental
measurement] its path or state is no longer uncertain. The simple act of
measurement instantly forces it into just one path or state. Physicists call this a ''collapse of the
wave function.''
The amazing thing is that
if just one particle in an entangled pair is measured, the wave function of
both particles collapses into a definite state that is the same for both
partners, even separated by great distances. The ‘double slit’ and ‘single
slit’ experiments of electrons behaving as wave and particle respectively but
once electron is observed it knows being observed and behaves as single shot
electron not as wave. This is strange phenomena. The particle knows when it is
being watched and when it was not. This shows the simple means of intelligence
by reacting to visual stimuli. In the STI [Self thinking Interface] Device
created by Physicst Roger R.Vogelsan in the early 70’ proved that there is
ultimate knowledge in the FORCE which connects to all freed electrons. This
FORCE knows everything its Omniscient.
Among several proposed explanations of all this is
the ''many worlds'' hypothesis: the notion that for every possible pathway or
state open to a particle, there is a separate universe. For each of 10 possible
pathways a quantum particle might follow, for example, there would exist a
separate universe.
Since the 1970's, Dr. John F. Clauser of the University of California at Berkeley,
Dr. Alain Aspect at the Institute des Optics in Orsay, France, and others
have been experimenting with pairs of entangled particles. One way to create a
pair of entangled twins is to start with a single photon of ultraviolet
radiation and pass it through a peculiar artificial mineral called a
''down-conversion crystal.'' In the Swiss experiment, the crystal consisted of
potassium niobate. The crystal splits the photon in two, producing two new
photons that continue on in somewhat different directions, and whose combined
energy equals the energy of their parent photon. The special quality of such
pairs, as shown both by theory and experiment, is that they are entangled
quantum mechanically. This means that if the polarization or energy or timing
of one of the particles is measured, its indefinite state is destroyed and it
falls into a definite state. The astonishing consequence of this is that the
particle's distant twin experiences exactly the same metamorphosis at the same
moment, even though there is no physical link or signal between the two twins.
In Dr. Gisin's experiment, as in earlier ones, no
signal of any kind was transmitted between the photons, but despite this, one
of the photons ''knew'' what happened to its distant twin, and mimicked the
twin's response. This response took less than one
ten-thousandth of the time a light beam would have needed to carry the news
from one photon to the other at a speed of 186,282 miles per second. (In fact,
the correlation between the two particles was presumably instantaneous. The
Swiss experiment merely set an upper limit on the time required for the
response as about three ten-billionths of a second.). Dr. Gisin's experiment made use of a system
of paired interferometers developed by Dr. James D. Franson of Johns Hopkins University, who is also a
leading investigator of quantum effects.
''You start with an ultraviolet photon and split it
into two photons. One goes one way and the other goes another way, both to identical
interferometers. Entering its own interferometer, each photon must make a
random decision as to whether it will travel a long pathway through the device
or a short one. Then you look for a correlation between the pathways taken by
the photons in their respective interferometers.'' If the timing between the
photons is exactly adjusted, each twin seems to know what the other is doing
and matches its choice of pathway to coincide with that of its distant partner.
Dr. Franson said of the correlation demonstrated over a seven-mile course by
the Swiss experiment, ''It's pretty amazing.''
Faster than Speed of Light:
It is assumed that the numerical correlation
between two particles different from information. Quantum theory is confirmed
by experiments, and so is relativity theory, which prevents us from sending
messages faster than light. It is unknown that there's any intuitive
explanation of what that means.
Tunneling:
Another deep quantum mystery for which physicists
have no answer has to do with ''tunneling'' -- the bizarre ability of particles
to sometimes penetrate impenetrable barriers. This effect is not only well
demonstrated; it is the basis of tunnel diodes and similar devices vital to
modern electronic systems. Tunnelling is based on the fact that quantum theory
is statistical in nature and deals with probabilities rather than specific
predictions; there is no way to know in advance when a single radioactive atom
will decay, for example. The probabilistic nature of quantum events means that
if a stream of particles encounters an obstacle, most of the particles will be
stopped in their tracks but a few, conveyed by probability alone, will
magically appear on the other side of the barrier. The process is called
''tunnelling,'' although the word in itself explains nothing. Dr. Chiao's group
at Berkeley, Dr. Aephraim M. Steinberg at the University of Toronto and others are
investigating the strange properties of tunnelling, which was one of the
subjects explored by scientists attending the Nobel Symposium on quantum
physics in Sweden. ''We find,''
Dr. Chiao said, ''that a barrier placed in the path of a tunnelling particle
does not slow it down. In fact, we detect particles on the other side of the
barrier that have made the trip in less time than it would take the particle to
traverse an equal distance without a barrier -- in other words, the tunnelling
speed apparently greatly exceeds the speed of light. Moreover, if you increase
the thickness of the barrier the tunneling speed increases, as high as you
please. ''This is another great mystery of quantum mechanics.'' Most physicists
and engineers set aside the contemplation of quantum mysteries and are content
to exploit the innumerable applications quantum physics has found in
technology, including lasers, solid-state electronics and much more. But the
sense of mystery has never been entirely suppressed.
The Cosmic Code:
The late Rockefeller University
physicist Heinz Pagels, like many other theorists, believed that quantum
physics is a kind of code that interconnects everything in the universe,
including the physical basis of life itself. In his book ''The Cosmic Code,''
Dr. Pagels, an ardent mountain climber, wrote:
''I often dream about falling. Such dreams are
commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately I dreamed I
was clutching at the face of a rock, but it would not hold. Gravel gave way. I
grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror I fell into the
abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was relative; there was no bottom and
no end. A feeling of pleasure overcame me. I realized that what I embody, the
principle of life, cannot be destroyed. It is written into the cosmic code, the
order of the universe. As I continued to fall in the dark void, embraced by the
vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with
the darkness.'' Dr. Pagels was killed in a climbing accident in 1988.
Quantum
Entanglement or the God Effect!
One of the main scientific goals of the world's
largest atom smasher, costing some 9 billion dollars, is to prove the existence
of the Higgs boson or God particle, which makes the universe possible by giving
mass to everything including all of us and the objects we can touch! Quantum
Entanglement (QE) or the God Effect is the working mechanism of the Higgs boson
or the God particle, because it’s so fundamental. Quantum Entanglement is at the heart of
understanding how significant events across the universe operate at the macro-
and micro- level in split-second synchronicity despite considerable distance
between them. Quantum Entanglement suggests that information is exchanged
faster between Quantum Entangled particles than the speed of light, which was
deemed impossible per Einstein's special theory of relativity proposed in 1905.
Quantum Entanglement: Applications
A 'Type' of
"The God Connection"!
When God created the universe and the laws of
physics, did He leave a 'connection' with all particles and forces within
it? It seems there are themes and
'designs' in science that seem to repeat and recur in nature. Scientists and
theologians have long wondered about the 'dualism' in particles and forces in
the universe, nature, and morality. For example, matter and antimatter,
positive and negative charges, male, female, good and evil, etc. When atomic
theory became the dominate theory of matter around the turn of the last
century, the model of Neils Bohr, of hard round particles orbiting the atomic
nucleus, was compared to the planetary system of our sun. The same theme is recurrent
in galactic structure and the orbits of stars, star clusters, and gasses. It
seemed that a basic structure was promulgated from the very smallest objects to
the very largest.
We have since seen that the atom is much more
complicated and that the objects orbiting the nucleus are not 'hard' and
definite, but are both particle and wave in their structure. The nucleus itself
is very complex and the once hard objects that we call neutrons, and protons
are actually made up of 'quarks' and other nebulous subatomic particles.
In religion
we have a belief that in order to communicate with God, a person enters into a
state of consciousness that we call prayer. Through prayer, a spiritual
connection is made to God and He hears our thoughts and we receive assurance
that He acknowledges our wishes. Is there a similar "type" in the
physical world for that connection? “It was We who created man and We know what dark suggestions his soul
makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.”(Qur’an;50:16)
The idea in
quantum entanglement is that every particle in a particle-antiparticle pair is
in instant communication with the other particle, regardless of how far apart
they are. It is a phenomenon that was experimentally proven, just recently, by
scientists in Geneva Switzerland, in 2008. In
this experiment a single particle - antiparticle pair was sent streaming away
from the source in opposite directions, and they were detected when they were
about 20 miles away from each other. The 'entanglement' phenomenon was proven when a 'detection' of
one particle instantly produced an identical change in the other particle. This
'instantaneous' transmission of information defies Einstein's theory of
relativity and the speed of light. A calculation was made that determined that
the speed of this experiment was at least 10,000 times the speed of light and
perhaps was instantaneous.
The size of the particles of this discussion are at
the subatomic level, far below 'microscope' level. Some scientists think that
at this level, there is a universal 'connection' that transcends space/time and
allows all particles to be 'in contact'
with every other particle in the universe in a way that we have yet to
understand. Below the 'quantum' or Planck level, the definitions of space and
time become obscure and tend to blur. If
all particles are somehow connected below the Planck level, it would seem to
say that we all have a universal connection to each other and perhaps that is
the medium through which prayer is channelled? That much is pure speculation,
but if God created all the physical laws and the universe in such a way that He
is never out of touch both spiritually
and physically, and is omnipresent everywhere at once, it confirms what
Christians, Jews & Muslims have always said about His presence and the ease
with which we are in touch with Him. It means that He knows every thought,
every event, and everything that happens in the universe. It also says that no
matter how far you travel, or how much you transgress His will, He is always
near.
Application in
Highly Secure Communications:
There are some real and amazing applications of
Quantum Entanglement in our world. It can be used to produce unbreakable
encryption. If we send each half of a set of entangled pairs to either end of a
communications link, then the randomly generated but linked properties can be
used as a key to encrypt information. If anyone intercepts the information it
will break the entanglement, and the communication can be stopped before the
eavesdropper picks up any data.
Teleportation, Star Trek style is an other aspect being explored.
Quantum
Pseudo-Telepathy: Telepathy is the transmission of information from
one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or
physical interaction, it is experienced between individuals, love one’s at far
off distances. The phenomenon of quantum pseudo-telepathy is mostly used as a
powerful and explicit thought experiment of the non-local characteristics of
quantum mechanics. Yet, the effect is real and subject to experimental
verification, as demonstrated by the experimental confirmation of the violation
of the Bell inequalities.
The 2nd Caliph Omar is reported to have communicated with the
commander of Islamic Army in battlefield hundreds of miles away. May be
entanglement phenomena have some thing to explain.
Chapter- 4: Holographic Universe
Since traveling faster than the speed of light is
tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some
physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Alain Aspect’s
findings. It has also inspired others to
offer even more radical explanations including that of the holographic
universe! The implications of a
holographic universe are truly mind boggling… Aspect’s findings imply that
objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the
universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why a number of physicists including David Bohm made this
startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms.
Hologram:
A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made
with the aid of a laser. To make a
hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser
beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first
and the resulting interference pattern -- the area where the two laser beams
superimpose -- is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a
meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is
illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original
object appears! The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only
remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half
and then illuminated by a laser, each half is still found to contain the entire
image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet
of film is always found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original
image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the
information possessed by the whole! The "whole in every part" nature
of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding
organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has laboured
under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a
frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram
teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this
approach. If we try to take apart some thing constructed holographically, we
will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
Extensions of the Same Source: This insight
suggested to some scientists including David Bohm another way of understanding
Aspect’s discovery. Bohm believed the reason subatomic particles are able to
remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them
is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth,
but because their separateness is an illusion.
Bohm suggested that at some deeper level of reality such particles are
not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental
something!
Beyond Cause and Effect:
Quantum Entanglement seems to throw out the whole
notion of cause and effect, as we know it! It is possible for a particle to
interact with another particle in such a way that the quantum states of the two
particles form a single entangled state. The definition of an entangled state
is that it is not entirely independent of the other's state. Its state is
dependent on another's state in some way. Given this dependency, it is a
mistake to consider either state in isolation from the other. Rather we should
combine the states and treat the result as a single, entangled state.
Space and Time:
When pairs of particles are generated by the decay
of other particles, naturally or through induced collision such as at CERN or
Fermi Labs, these pairs may be termed "entangled", in that such pairs
often necessarily have linked and opposite qualities, ie of spin or charge. The
assumption that measurement in effect "creates" the state of the
measured quality goes back to the arguments of, among others: Schrödinger and
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen concerning Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and
its relation to observation. Quantum Entanglement does underline the fact that
quantum particles really do only have a range of probabilities on the values of
their properties rather than fixed values. And while it seems to contradict
Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which says nothing can travel faster
than light, it’s increasingly likely that entanglement challenges our ideas of
what space and time really mean!
Chapter-5: Attributes of God & Science
The Attributes, Words and Signs and
Mercies of Allah are manifest in His Creations, and can never be fully set out
in human language, however extended human means may imagined to be. However all
that is mentioned about Allah's attributes, whether briefly or in detail and
affirmatively or negatively, based on Qur'an, and the traditions of Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) are final some are also mentioned in Bible. Allah
has most perfect attributes; Allah can
be called by any name, signifying the attributes of perfection, suitable to
Him. Traditionally in Islamic traditions 99 Names are attributed to Allah, some
are also mentioned in Bible. Some Islamic attributes of God are: The Creator (Al-Khaliq), The Master, The Lord of
Universe (Rab-ul-Ala’min),),
The Owner of All Sovereignty (Malik-al-Mulk),
The Timeless (As-Sabur), The
One, The Unique, Manifestation of Unity (Al-Wahid),
The All Knowing, The Omniscient (Al-`Alim),
The All Seeing (Al-Basir), The
All Aware (Al-Khabir), The
King, The Sovereign (Al-Malik),
The Almighty, The Self Sufficient (Al-Aziz),
The Powerful, The Rightful (Al-Bari'),
The Fashioner of Forms (Al-Musawwir),
The Majestic (Al-Jalil), The
Answerer (Al-Mujib), The Strong
(Al-Qawaie), The Producer,
Originator, and Initiator of All (Al-Mubdi,
Al Badi'), The Magnificent (Al-Majid),
The One, the All Inclusive, The Indivisible (Al-Ahad), The Self Sufficient, The Everlasting (As-Samad), The All Beneficent (Ar-Rahman), The Most Merciful (Ar-Rahim), The Lord of Majesty and
Generosity (Dhu-al-Jalali wa-al-Ikram),
The Incomparable, The Originator (Al-Badi).
Some of His attributes are explained briefly:-
The Creator:
He is the Supreme Creator:" He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth.
(Qur’an;6:101). Allah has no equal because His Attributes
are perfect: "There is nothing whatsoever like unto Him. He is the
All-hearing, the All-seeing" (Qur’an;42:11); "no slumber or sleep
seizes Him" (Qur’an;2:255), because His life is perfect and eternal. Bible
also mentions: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the
everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or
grow weary, his understanding is Unsearchable.”(Isaiah;40:28).
Uncreated:
Allah knows, but not as human knows; He has power,
but not as human have power. He is a thing, but unlike other things; by saying
"thing," it is intended merely to affirm His reality. He has neither
body nor substance, neither accidental property nor limit, neither opposite nor
like nor similitude. A human being require some material to make some thing
i.e. a carpenter requires wood, nails tools and other material to make a
table. God Most High creates things out
of nothing and He has knowledge of them in pre-eternity, before their creation.
The Lord:
Cherisher & Sustainer
(Lord) of All the Worlds:
Allah is The Sustainer’ (Rabb) of all
the worlds. “Praise be to Allah the Cherisher and Sustainer (Rabb al-
a’lamen) of the Worlds”(Qur’an;1:2); “Then praise be to Allah, Lord of the
heavens and Lords of the earth, the Lord of the Worlds.”(Qur’an;45:36); “Cast
thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.”(Psalms;55:22).
Omnipotent, the Wise:
He is Omnipotent: “He is the Supreme Authority over His
servants; and He is the Wise, the Aware.”(Qur’an;6:18
). Allah is not living with His creatures on earth, but He is closer to human
than their jugular vein: “It was We who
created man and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are
nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.”(Qur’an;50:16). It implies that Allah
knows more truly the innermost state of human feeling and consciousness than
does their own self; “Hast thou not seen that Allah knows all that is in the
heavens and all that is in the earth? There is no secret conference of three
but He is their fourth, nor of five but He is their sixth, nor of less than
that or more but He is with them Wheresoever they may be;...”(Qur’an;58:7);
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?”(Psalms;139:7).
Omniscient:
Allah possess absolute
& infinite knowledge: “He Alone has the keys of the unseen treasures, of
which no one knows except Him. He knows whatever is in the land and in the sea;
there is not a single leaf that falls without His knowledge, there is neither a
grain in the darkness of the earth nor anything fresh or dry which has not been
recorded in a Clear Book.”(Qur’an;6:59); "Allah alone has
the knowledge of the Hour, sends down rain, and knows what is in the wombs (a
blessing or a curse). No soul knows what it shall earn tomorrow, and no soul
knows in what land it shall die. Surely, Allah is All-knowing, All-aware"
(Qur’an;31:34). The Qur'an points to the rich sources of knowledge in the whole
universe. “..The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord never
errs nor forgets”(Qur’an;20:52); “ For a man's ways are
before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.”(Proverbs;5:21).
The First and the Last:
The Evident and The Immanent: According to Qur’an: "He is the First and the Last the Evident and
the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things. "(Qur’an;57:3);
“They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like
a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But
thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.”(Psalms;102:26-27). God is
Evident in so far as there is ample evidence of His existence and providence
all around the universe. On the other hand, God is Hidden in so far as human
intellect cannot grasp His essence nor can He be seen in the present world. “I
am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is
to come, the Almighty.”(RSV;Revelation;1:8). The Bible also mentions, God as
Invisible (Job;23:8-9) and Un-searchable (Job;11:7; 37:23;Psalms; 145:3; Isaiah; 40:28).
God is Not Similar to His Creatures:
“There is none like unto
Him”(Qur’an;112:4); “..there is none like me in all the earth.”(Exodus;9:14).
The Merciful:
The Mercy of Allah is the
one of the grandest themes of the Qur’an. To contemplate these boundless gifts
of God. “When those who believe in Our revelations come to you, say:
"Peace be upon you. Your Lord has decreed mercy upon Himself. If anyone
among you commits evil because of ignorance and thereafter repents and mends
his ways; you will find Allah Forgiving, Merciful.”(Qur’an;6:54
& 85:14). God’s attribute of Mercy is also highlighted in Bible at
Exodus;34:6-7 and many other places: “The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy:
teach me thy statutes.”(Psalms;119:64); “Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep
mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.”(Hosea;12:6); “For a small
moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather
thee.”(Isaiah;54:7); “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us,”(Ephesians;2:4).
Justice:
He helps all with justices
and fairness: “The fact is that Allah is your Protector and He is the best of
all helpers.”(Qur’an;3:150); “Rest assured that Allah does not wrong anyone
even by an atom's weight. If someone does a good deed He increases it many fold
and also gives an extra great reward on His own.”(Qur’an;4:40).
He is Sustainer of humanity whether believers or non believers and all other
creatures: “We bestowed on all - these
as well those - out of the bounties of your Lord; the bounties of your
Sustainer are not confined.”(Qur’an;17:20). He answers the prayers:
"Call on Me; I will answer your (Prayer)...!"(Qur’an;40.60). It is
mentioned in Bible: “Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is
excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not
afflict.”(Job;37:23). On the Day of Judgment He will judge among His people. He
is the Doer of what He wills. True knowledge based on clear proof and
indisputable evidence acquired by experience or experiment or by both.
He Does What He Wills:
To Him belongs the Kingdom
of the Heavens and the Earth, He does what ever He Wills:“ Whenever He intends
a thing, He needs only to say: "Be," and it is.”(Qur’an;36:82);
"There is nothing whatever like unto Him, He is the All-hearing, the
All-seeing. To Him belongs the keys of the Heavens and the Earth. He enlarges
and restricts provisions to whom He wills. Surely He has knowledge of
everything" (Qur’an;42:11-12); "He creates what He pleases. He gives,
to whom He wills, females, and He gives, to whom He wills, males, or He couples
them, males and females; and He makes whom He wills barren. Surely, He is the
Knowing, the Powerful"(Qur’an;42:49-50). Despite being All Powerful, God
does not wrong the mankind: “Lo! Allah wrongs not mankind in aught; but mankind
wrong themselves.” (Qur’an;10:44).
Subtle, Unfathomable, The All Aware:
Allah is Latif, fine, subtle, so fine and subtle as to be
invisible to the physical eye; so fine as to be imperceptible to the senses;
figuratively, so pure as to be above the mental or spiritual vision of ordinary
men but at the same time He is aware of all things. It is beyond the capability of human eye to see God In this world, Allah
says: “Vision cannot perceive Him, but He perceives all vision. He is
the Subtle, (Latif, Incomprehensible), the All-aware"
(Qur’an;6:103). Bible also confirms that God can not bee seen (John;1:18,
1Timothy;6:16, Exodus;33:20). God Most High will be seen in the Hereafter, visible to
the believers in Paradise with their corporeal vision as mentioned in Qur’an: "Upon that day
(Day of Judgment) some faces shall be radiant, gazing upon their
Lord"(Qur’an;75:22-23). “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and
backward, but I cannot perceive him; on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot
behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.”(Job;23:8-9).
Belief in God, His names, and His attributes
instils in the individual the love and glorification of God that result in
obeying God’s instructions and avoiding His prohibitions. These are the means
of achieving ultimate happiness in this life and the hereafter for both the
individual and the society: "Whoever, male or female, does righteous
deed, while believing, We shall assuredly grant him a goodly life,
and We shall reward them according to the best of their deeds"
(Qur’an;16:97).
Chapter-6: Scientific Proofs of God
Through Four Common Attributes:
While keeping metaphysics and spirituality aside,
the four primary physical attributes are being considered here that may help to
describe God to any believer or disbeliever in scientific terms: 1)Eternal, independent
of time, 2)Omnipresent, found everywhere, 3)Omnipotent, all powerful and
4)Omniscient, all knowing. If these primary attributes are found in one Power
and are proved scientifically then that power is God.
Eternal:
Heisenberg came to the conclusion that quantum
events cannot be predicted. All freed electrons behave as if they are being
influenced by an outside variable or force, Uncertainty Principle. In Signal
Travels Farther & Faster than light by Malcolm W.Browne, a force was found
connecting two freed electrons and proved to be Eternal, was present within our
time yet was not involved with the flow of our time. This Eternal force
connects to all freed electrons. Every particle that releases energy connects
to this Eternal force.
Omnipresent:
Everything
beyond our solar system that is visible is made of stars, which all release
freed electrons, light, radiation etc. This shows that this force to also be
Omnipresent everywhere in the universe.
Omnipotent:
In experiments by Russian scientists they found at
that laser photons knew when a DNA molecule was added in to the vacuum. [http://quantumbalancing.com/news/russian_dna.htm]
The photons/electrons collected around the DNA
stand and began to change the order of the DNA, changing it to what is desired.
After the DNA was removed and the laser turned off the excess photons remained
in the position resembling the DNA for over 22 minutes. This simply proves that
this force to be Omnipotent, all powerful. It is common observation that we see
everything to be so complex, complex environments, complex galaxies and the
complexity of nature and life itself. If this force created everything from
nothing, we know that energy cannot be created, shows this force to be
Omnipotent. Visual evidence is seen in the distance of stars and galaxies
across the universe.
According to the first law of thermodynamics energy
cannot be created or destroyed. Then where did all the energy in this universe
come from? Does it have something to do with this same force being timeless?
The force was able to use freed electrons to manipulate DNA, showing what this
force can do on a tiny scale. What can this force do to freed electrons on a
large scale? Is the universe expanding form dark matter or this Eternal Force?
Since the universe is full of freed electrons, one
can only imagine what this force could do if it used to work as one single
entity. Possibly how the whole universe was created in six eons.
This data implies that all freed electrons in
combination or as a collective to be: Omnipotent, all powerful. This is self
evident from the size and distance of galaxies that can be seen across this
universe.
Omniscient:
In the Double Slit experiment mentioned earlier,
light a freed electron showed that it was observant of its surroundings. It
knew when it was being watched and knew when it was not. It showed simple means
of intelligence by reacting to visual stimuli. The first bit of evidence that
showed this force to be, Omniscient. In the STI [Self thinking Interface]
Device created by Physicst Roger R.Vogelsan in the early 70’ proved that there
is ultimate knowledge in the FORCE which connects to all freed electrons. This
FORCE knows everything its Omniscient.
Hence science proves that God is real and His
existence is scientifically proved, let’s look at the summary:
1)
God is Eternal: The
twin-photon experiment by Dr.Nicholas Gisin verified by later experiments found
photons, freed electrons to be connected to this Force. Nothing can go faster
that light except this one Force.
2)
God is Omnipresent: This force
connects to all freed electrons in our universe. Freed electrons are created
when matter is converted in to energy. This force is everywhere even beyond our
universe. This force is found to be everywhere in our universe’s past, present
& future which we call time as time does not exist to this force.
3)
God is Omnipotent: All powerful.
We observe galaxies at the furthest reaches of the universe. Not hot gas which
first theorised but old galaxies. How can the light now be reaching us and show
old galaxies at the furthest extents of the universe? If light has a speed
limit, then how did distant galaxies form long before the universe was said to
have begun? This force again shows that it is Omnipotent and Timeless.
4)
God is Omniscient: All knowing.
Physicst Roger R.Vogelsang found with his STI Device that not only could this
force read thoughts and knew all things in the past and future but have
knowledge of every thing past, present and future.
God is Eternal, Omnipresent, Omnipotent and
Omniscient, science proves it!
Chapter-7: God, Science & Universe
Scientific Facts in Qur’an on Universe
History records many miracles performed through
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) but Allah in His Divine wisdom provided
Qur’an, the ever living sign (miracle) through Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him), which any one can read by himself, to discover that Qur’an is the true
word of Allah, the last book of guidance, light and wisdom for the humanity
till eternity. Islam encourages reasoning, discussions and dialogue. The Qur’an
provides reason and rationale for the purpose, creation and existence of
universe. It is the living sign of God and truthfulness of His last messenger,
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Allah says: “O mankind! Verily there hath
come to you a convincing proof (Qur’an) from your Lord: for We have sent unto
you a light (that is) manifest. Then those who believe in Allah and hold fast
to Him soon will He admit them to Mercy and Grace from Him and guide them to
Himself by a straight Way.”(Qur’an;4:174-175). The Qur’an contains more than
six thousand ayaats (‘Signs’), each
verse (ayah), of Qur’an is a sign from the Lord, which speaks of the greatness
of its originator. It is a historical fact that Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him) was ‘Ummi’ i.e. unlettered (illiterate) (Qur’an;7:157). Revelation of
Qur’an in Arabic, unmatched in its eloquence and beauty, through the mouth of
un-learned (Isaiah;29:12) prophet is miraculous. The prophesy of Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Qur’an (word of God, i.e. ‘words in his
mouth’) is mentioned in Bible at Deuteronomy; 18:18,19. The universal challenge
of Qur’an to produce even one ayah (verse) like Qur’an (Qur’an;2:23) is yet to be answered. This is the only scripture
in the world which is available to the humanity in its original revealed form
and will continue to be as such because Allah has taken responsibility to guard
it (Qur’an;15:9) . It is the only scripture which is memorized by thousands of
Muslims of all ages, nationalities, categories and professions (doctors,
engineers, scientists, clerics and common people) the world over from last
fourteen centuries, hence is transferred from generation to generation
accurately. It is the most recited book in the world.
Qur’an is not a book of ‘science’, but a book of ‘signs’ (ayaats), there are more than thousand verses of Qur’an referring to
various subjects of science, such as astronomy, physics, geography, geology,
oceanology, biology, botany, zoology, medicine, physiology, embryology as well
as general science, mostly un known to humanity at the time of its revelation,
fourteen centuries ago. Some verses related with universe are mentioned here:
“Soon shall We show them Our signs in the universe
and in their own selves, until it
becomes clear to them that this Qur'an is
indeed the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is a witness over
everything?”(Qur’an;41:53)
“Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and
the earth were joined together (as one unit of Creation) before We clove them
asunder? (Big Bang) We made from water every living thing. Will they not then
believe?”(Qur’an;21:30)
“Moreover He Comprehended in His design the sky and
it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth: "Come ye together
willingly or unwillingly. "They said: "We do come (together) in
willing obedience."(Qur’an;41:11)
“Who hath created and further given order and
proportion” (Qur’an;87:2).
“And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with
might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it”. (Qur'an, 51:47)
“That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up
the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate
it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do.” (Qur'an, 21:104)
“They do not measure Allah with His true measure.
The whole earth will be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising the heavens
folded up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is exalted above the partners
they ascribe!” (Qur'an, 39:67)
“He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You
will not find any discrepancy in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look
again-do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to
you dazzled and exhausted!” (Qur'an, 67:3-4)
“Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers,
and placed the moon as a light in them and made the sun a blazing lamp?”
(Qur'an, 71:15-16)
“No! I swear by the planets-that recede, that ride
their course [and] hide themselves.” (Qur'an, 81: 15-16)
“Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the
earth in six eons and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne...” (Qur'an, 7:54). When a six-eons period of time is calculated
according to the relativity of time, it equates to six trillion days. That is
because universal time flows a million million times faster than time on Earth.
Calculated in terms of years, 6 trillion days equates to approximately 16.427
billion years. This is within the estimated range for the age of the universe.
Black Holes: “And I swear by the stars'
positions-and that is a mighty oath if you only knew”. (Qur'an, 56:75-76),
“When the stars are extinguished”, (Qur'an, 77:8), “[I swear] by Heaven and the
Tariq! And what will convey to you what the Tariq is? The Star Piercing [the
darkness]!” (Qur'an, 86:1-3)
The Skies with 'Woven' Orbits: "By heaven
furnished with paths;" (Quran; 51:7)
“Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any
support – you can see that – and then established Himself firmly on the Throne.
He made the Sun and Moon subservient, each running for a specified term. He
directs the whole affair. He makes the Signs clear so that hopefully you will
be certain about the meeting with your Lord”. (Quran; 13:2)
A Red Rose in The Sky: The Rosette Nebula: When the
Heaven shall be cleft asunder, and become rose red, like stained leather.
(Quran; 55:37)
The Sun Will Expire after Some Time: And the sun
runs to a fixed resting place. That is the decree of the Almighty, the
All-Knowing. (Quran; 36:38)
“It is We Who have created you. Why, then, do you
not accept the truth? Have you ever considered that [seed] which you emit? Is
it you who create it? Or are We the Creator?” (Qur'an, 56:57-59)
The complex process of pregnancy from conception
till child birth, discovered recently is accurately narrated in Qur’an;23:13-14.
It is found that the Qur’anic information on
science does not conflict with the established scientific facts. It may go
against certain scientific hypothesis or theories, which are not based on facts
as many a times, the science retracts its position.
The scientific facts mentioned in Qur’an have been
discovered during last few centuries. But science has not advanced to a level
where it can confirm every statement of the Qur’an referring to scientific
information. According to Dr.Zakir Naik; suppose 80% of all that is mentioned
in the Qur’an has been proved 100% correct, while for the remaining 20%,
science makes no categorical statement, since it has not advanced to a level,
where it can either prove or disprove these statements. With the limited
knowledge through science available today, one cannot say for sure whether even
a single percentage or a single verse of the Qur’an from this 20% portion is
wrong. Thus when 80% of the Qur’an is 100% correct and the remaining 20% is not
disproved, logic says that even the 20% portion is correct. [The details of
scientific facts mentioned in Qur’an have been deliberated upon in the book
‘Qur’an and Science’ by Dr.Zakir Naik & "The Bible, The Qur'an and
Science" by Dr. Maurice Bucaille, a French doctor]. How an unlettered person
brought up among the most backward desert Arabs, away from the centres of
civilization and knowledge, could accurately provide the scientific information
mostly discovered recently? It is God, the Creator alone Who could provide so
accurate scientific information. Consequently as the scientific information
mentioned in Qur’an is true then, by inference the other metaphysical
information mentioned in Qur’an (correspondingly also in Bible) like; existence
of God, angles, eschatology (death, judgment, heaven, hell, and the final
destiny of the soul and of humankind) must also be true. Humanity has much more
to learn from Qur’an if they ponder over it (Qur’an;38:29).
Allah says: “This Book
(Al-Qur'an) which We have sent down to you (O Muhammad) is highly blessed, so
that they may ponder upon its verses and the men of understanding may learn a
lesson from it.”(Qur’an;4:82).
It’s amazing; there is no doubt that Qur'an is a
living miracle manifesting existence of The One Creator-Allah.
Conclusion:
Science is beginning to see the entire universe as
a holographically interlinked network of energy and information.
"Science is not the enemy of humanity but one
of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of
infinite knowledge," "Our capacity for fulfillment can come only
through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason
and knowledge." Science, he warned, is not "as resilient as commerce,
religion, or politics. It needs careful nurturing." If humankind ultimately
abandons science, it would be "an error that might cost us our
existence." [Pagels]
As Einstein said, "Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht!" or
"The Lord is subtle, but he is not malicious!" And as the mystic Maulana Rumi wrote around
800 years ago, "If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of
secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe
would appear on the mirror of your perception!"
Allah says in Quran: “Soon shall We show them Our
signs in the universe and
in their own selves, until it
becomes clear to them that this Qur'an is
indeed the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is a witness over
everything?”(Qur’an;41:53); “We did not create heaven and earth and everything
between them to no purpose. That is the opinion of those who disbelieve…”
(Qur’an; 38: 27), “Verily in the heavens and the earth are Signs for those who
believe. (Qur’an; 45:3). “Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands
out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the
most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And God hears and knows all
things.” (Qur’an; 2:255).
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