WE ARE CREATED OUT OF NOTHING
117-Creator of the heavens and the earth from nothingness, He has only to say when He wills a thing “Be”, and it is.
2- The Cow, 117
The Arabic word ibda means creation of something out of nothing. This word also connotes the fact that something is created not on a pattern previously designed of something but as a completely new entity having no precedence. The greatest marvel of the creation is the creation of all concepts out of nothing. Think of the spectrum of colors. None of us can visualize a color that we have not already seen, nor can we produce that color. We are familiar with colors that already exist, but we cannot possibly create a new color. God, on the other hand, created all colors at a time when the concept of color did not exist just like the universe that did not exist before. To create a concept and its range of contents out of nothing is beyond human imagination and power.
Atheists contend that matter existed from eternity, that it had no beginning and that all formations evolved out fortuitously. George Politzer, in his book entitled, The Basic Principles of Philosophy contends that the universe was not created. Had it been so, the universe would have been the work of a God who would have created it at a given moment out of nothing. That in order to be able to accept the theory of creation, one had to posit the existence of a moment when there was no universe, as it was to emerge from the void.
Atheism is the belief that God does not exist and materialism is the belief that only physical things have reality. These two words are often used as synonyms. Atheists that refute God’s existence accept the infinite existence of matter, and are, consequently, materialists. Atheists contend that matter was not created but existed from eternity. Certain philosophers in Ancient Greece gave credence to God’s existence although they said nothing about whether the matter was created or existed from eternity. Every atheist is automatically materialist, but it would not be correct to say that all materialists are atheists. The postulate of the eternal existence of God and that matter was created goes back to the monotheistic religions. All the monotheistic religions postulate that God existed from eternity and that matter was created by God. The fact that matter was created also proves the existence of God and that Judaism and Christianity and Islam are religions revealed by God.
It is true that there are still people today who worship the Sun, the Moon and the fire. They carry on their practices and rituals without any logical, scientific or philosophical justification. To invalidate these beliefs that challenge all reason, logic and science as criteria within the framework of rationalistic, logical and scientific methods is not possible. Such people necessitate explanations that would break down their prejudices and relieve them of their obsessions. Throughout history there have been three separate viewpoints that alleged to be in conformity with reason and science. These viewpoints have at least declared that they accepted reason, logic and science as criteria. In the present book, we shall try to expound these ideas and analyze their relevancy.
These three views are:
1) Monotheism: There is but one God. He that created the matter, this magnificent universe and everything in it living or inanimate;
2) Atheistic materialism: Matter has been existing from eternity. Everything is made of matter from a concatenation of fortuitous events;
3) Agnosticism: We cannot know which of these two viewpoints is correct. Both may be justified in their postulates.
Essentially there are two fundamental alternatives. For the third announces that none of these views can be proved rather than propounding a new view. The agnostic point of view contends that we can not know whether matter and things had been created or not. For instance in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, David Hume’s (1724-1804) three interlocutors exhibit contrasts, namely ‘the accurate philosophical turn of Cleanthes’ with ‘the careless skepticism of Philo’ and ‘the rigid inflexible orthodoxy of Demea’; the words of Phiolo reflect the agnostic attitude. Kant (1724-1804) in The Critique of Pure Reason asserts that we cannot know whether matter was created or not, nor man for that matter. (Although his ideas were agnostic in character, Kant believed in God.)
THE BIG BANG INVALIDATES BOTH AGNOSTICISM AND ATHEISM
The agnostic’s assertion may be expressed by the sentence. “We cannot know anything”. He believes that nothing is or can be known. If the hypothesis “Matter had a beginning” is confirmed, the assertion that “Matter had no beginning” would be refuted and the contention “We cannot know whether it had a beginning or not” will be proved wrong. Thus, demonstration of the fact that matter had a beginning is a blow not only to atheism but also to agnosticism and skepticism. Once the hypothesis of the beginning and creation of matter has been confirmed, the atheists should abandon their disbelief and the agnostics their skepticism. If you remember the words in the sura The Prophets, verse 30 ‘Will they not believe even then?’ this statement in the verse that described the Big Bang is a sign according to which the unbelievers will stick to their own convictions. It has become clear that an agnostic is no different than a Hindu who worships the cow and the denial of the atheist is tantamount to the adoration of fire; these people base their philosophies on absolute lack of evidence, sheer delusion, total lack of logic and scientific reasoning. The claims of rationality and the so-called scientific approach of the atheists and agnostics have been debunked. What is more, at the stage of creation of matter! (In the coming pages we shall see that both in the creation of the universe, in things created within the universe and in the creation of living beings, a consciously designed process is going on, and contention to the contrary, agnosticism and skepticism would be but delusion.)
Some materialist scientists had to acknowledge the creation after the confirmation of the Big Bang hypothesis. For instance, the British materialist physicist H.P.Lipson confessed that he had had to accept the Big Bang. He said that there was nothing to be done but accept the fact that the universe was created. He said that he was well aware that many other physicists like him had found this repulsive but that they should not contradict this fact just because they had not fancied it.
BEFORE THE BIG BANG
David Darling, in the beginning of his work Deep Time, describes the time preceding the Big Bang. He says that time and space did not exist; that matter and energy did not exist; that there was nothing, not even the tiniest particle, not even the void; that from the void a resonance was heard, an imperceptible vibration, an undulation, a whirlpool, and that the lid of the cosmic bow was opened and the miracle of creation sprouted.
Gerrit L. Verschuur, from the Colorado University, in his book Starscapes acknowledged that the thesis advanced by religion had to be confirmed. He said that the Big Bang theory proved that the earth and the heavens must have been created as had been contended by religions, and that this was the surprising result of the conformity of astronomy and religion..
It was concluded that time existed in relation to the movements of matter. As matter and its movements did not exist prior to the Big Bang, time did not exist before the Big Bang. Matter and time came into being after the Big Bang. They existed in correlation with each other. Roger Penrose from Oxford University and Stephen Hawking have conclusively proved in mathematical terms that the universe had had a beginning. The Big Bang theory confirmed the atheists’ assertion that the universe had to have a beginning if it had been created. In brief, the claim of atheists was invalidated in scientific terms and in terms of logic and reason; and yet the atheistic attitude is till prevalent today due to the obduracy, delusion and arbitrariness.
If there are two theses, the substantiation of either of them disproves the other’s argument. The contention of atheists that matter existed from eternity having thus been refuted; the fact that it was created becomes the incontestable truth, discrediting the conviction of unbelievers. Insistence of denial of this proven fact is a gross mistake and unpardonable obduracy.
49-Nay it is clear signs in the hearts of those who are granted knowledge. And none deny our messages except the iniquitous.
29- The female Spider, 49
TEACHINGS OF THE BIG BANG
The Big Bang theory taught us in the first place that the universe and time had a beginning and that matter did not exist from eternity but was created. The assertion that the universe existed from eternity was thus debunked.
The Big Bang not only demonstrated that the universe was created by the Creator, but at the same time the false beliefs like the distribution of sovereignties among divinities, each having under his command, the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the mountains respectively, were disproved. It became clear that whoever He was that had devised the initial composition of the universe y having recourse to the Big Bang was the Creator of everything. Thus the universe was under the exclusive control of one single power and this power was not shared. The universe had begun to evolve from a single point; the author of that point was also the originator of men, rivers, stars, butterflies, supernovas, colors, suffering and happiness, music and esthetics. Since everything came into being emerging from the One, He must be the author of that ‘One’.
The Big Bang showed that the matter transformed into an idol, the matter that lay in the origin of the universe was an insignificant speck of dust so to say. Those who witnessed that from that insignificant speck there emerged men, beasts, plants, the universe in its glowing colors, conceived that the genius was not inherent in the matter itself but in something exterior to it, i.e. in the Creator. Close your eyes and try to imagine the void and open them to behold the trees, the seas, the heavens, your own image reflected in the mirror, the food put at your disposal for your consumption and last but not least the works of art. How could all these glorious things have emerged all by themselves from the dark and from one single point in the void? For intelligent minds, the creation unfolds itself not only in mathematical terms but also in artistic esthetics. The velocity of expansion of the universe is of such a critical character that according to the expression of a scientist. Had he velocity been at he very first second after the primeval explosion less than 1/ 10 (-18), the universe would have collapsed, sinking unto itself and never come into being as it is. Likewise had the quantity of matter be less than it actually was the universe would have scattered around making the formation of the satellites impossibility. The force applied in the disintegration of the initial composition at the moment of creation is not only incommensurably great, but the design behind it is infinitely ingenious. Thus everything was designed by our Creator to make possible the existence of the universe. All these events are meant to show the blindfolded the infinite power of our Creator and the fact that He had designed everything to the very infinitesimal detail as perfectly as one can imagine. We are witnessing another fact through these phenomena: impossibility does not exist in the vocabulary of the Creator; it suffices Him to wish that something comes about and there it is.
