[MENTION=5869]yasir[/MENTION]
There are certain aspects in Islam that don't make sense to me, and nor do I try to clutch at straws and justify them using half-cooked logic (like most people) because I feel as if it is my moral duty to prove that it is right even though I have no clue what I am talking about.
As far as evolution is concerned, there is an overwhelming evidence for it and it continues to strengthen with time. You are right, in the field of medicine, it is a very pertinent point of discussion and people spend hours and hours debating about it.
One thing I despise is when these Maulvis start talking about science, even though they don't have a clue. Their last resort is that Science is not advance enough yet to disprove Quran, and for me that is nothing but a cop-out.
However, here is the thing. Should I renounce my faith in Islam because of the theory of evolution or because of some other aspects that don't make sense to me?
One of the purpose of education is not what to belief but how to investigate and digest information. Enterprise of Science does not make any sense if supernatural entities like God exists. Biggest question always have being how does such an entity got created?
Flirting with both Science and religion is also confusing, to me our society has not developed much trust in Science yet, partly because most scientist are from West, its not part of our culture yet, we are skeptical about the culture of free thinking, most of our elders associate free sex, nudity, drugs with free thinking culture, they also under mine the importance of free thinking mind. For them free thinking culture is evil it will take away their thousand years old traditions and religion.
God of Gaps
In software programing there is a very standard technique where you start simple and all kinds of error are caught by catch all exception, as your program mature, you have more detail exception handling, every category of error has special handling, in many cases you start taking proactive action rather than just printing error. this helps troubleshooting and make program robust. Which error to handle first depends on many factors like priority, frequency, how harder it is to fix etc
Supernatural God has sort of same purpose, we started off with everything is attributed to God, as we learn more, we put that phenomena in its own bucket. We have being doing a lot lately. The whole operation aspect of universe and our life has nothing to do with Super natural. The problem with Origins is that its harder to gather evidence of events that are rare or happened long time ago. Origin of life and Origin of Universe are such events, that are difficult to study because they are rare, that's why most theologian are now only focusing on injecting God in Origin process, they debate less about role of God in operation aspects. Although they have no explanation to offer as to how origins begin...
Role of God in Life and Death
One of the operation aspect of our life is well life and death. Most religions believe that God actively involves in life and death of every human beings. Every birth is directly by God's command and so is death.
If you look at last century, with the advancement of Science we have controlled lot of infant mortality, plus controlling diseases, improving food and clean water etc has led to exponential growth of our population. There is no religious explanation of why population has gone up so much? - specially why infants were dying at such a high percentage even that was true for noble men including Prophets. Why God suddenly change his population dial to let infants live, even for worst of people? - Average life span has increased which can be attributed to advancement via Science. There is clearly no connection of God Birth and Death.
Same is true for new problem we facing collectively as society like Climate Change.
Fear is not a path to progress
There is no involvement of God in day to day operation of Cosmos, which is suggested by Holy scriptures. They had political motivation to do that, my point is all those religions were wrong, we should respect them or not based on face value not because of fear. Fear is not a good motivator for us to progress. Fear was useful tool, when masses were illiterate, like institute of military, where purpose is to build obedient solider. This does not work very well for entire society. Even in USA most of the military R&D is outside the military institution, because they sucks at innovation...
What about my personal experiences that made me go back to Islam and strengthened my faith in Allah swt when I was on the brink? Do I have anything to lose by being a Muslim?
Suppose God does not exist and I die a believer, what do I lose? Nothing. No one is going to judge me after my death and I will simply decompose.
On the contrary, what if God exists and I die a disbeliever, what then?
Which case is better?
Everybody has Atheist in them
By this logic, what if your religion is wrong? - You are screwed anyway. Its like you are filling a multi-choice question and has no idea which one is right, not just what are the test criteria, is there a negative marking? - Do you really want to live in such a fear?
Every religious person is Atheist about every other religion except their own. Atheist go one God farther.
I have seen people ridicule others believes but never apply same yard stick to their own...
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