Answering Atheists: Watch in the Sand ?

[Say_what1]

I would like to share this interesting article...

Source: Islamway.com

Answering Atheists: Watch in the Sand ?!


Suppose you find a watch in the middle of a desert. What would you conclude? Would you think that someone dropped the watch? Or would you suppose that the watch came by itself?

Of course no sane person would say that the watch just happened to emerge from the sand. All the intricate working parts could not simply develop from the metals the lay buried in the earth. The watch must have a manufacturer.

If a watch tells accurate time? Consider the sunrise and sunset. Their timings are so strictly regulated that scientists can publish in advance the sunrise and sunset times in your daily newspapers. But who regulates the timings of sunrise and sunset?



Allah tells us in the Quran : "Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth, (here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise"


The message is clear, if a watch can not work without an intelligent maker, how can the sun appear to rise and set with such clockwork regularity? Could this occur by itself?

Consider also that we benefit from the sun only because it remains at a safe distance from the earth, a distance that averages 93 million miles. If it got much closer the earth would burn up. And if it got too far away the earth would turn into an icy planet making human life here impossible.

Who decided in advance that this was the right distance? Could it just happen by chance? Without the sun plants would not grow. Then animals and humans would starve. Did the sun just decide to be there for us ?!

The rays of the sun would be dangerous for us had it not been for the protective ozone layer in our atmosphere. The atmosphere around earth keeps the harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching us. Who was it that placed this shield around us?

We need to experience sunrise. We need the sun's energy and it's light to see our way during the day. But we also need sunset. We need a break from the heat, we need the cook of night and we need the lights to out so we may sleep. Who regulated this process to provide what we need?

Moreover, if we had only the sun and the protection of the atmosphere we would want something more-beauty. Our clothes provide warmth and protection, yet we design them to also look beautiful. Knowing or need for beauty, the designer of sunrise and sunset also made the view of them to be simply breathtaking.

The creator who gave us light, energy, protection and beauty deserves our thanks. Yet some people insist that he does not exist. What would they think if they found a watch in the desert? An accurate, working watch? A beautifully designed watch? Would they not conclude that there does exist a watchmaker? An intelligent watchmaker? One who appreciates beauty? Such is God who made us.

[*Anisa]

Hhmmm

I've noticed that a LOT of members put an undeserved amount of priority on issues that aren't central to us as Somalis. Why do one or two atheists get so many topics dedicated to them

[Say_what1]

its not just abt somalinet, We live in countries where the majority of the poeple seem to be atheists!

and this is not only for atheists...

[*Anisa]

Yes, but it's been overdone.

[Say_what1]

Oh sorry Welcome me to this forum

[*Anisa]

Welcome

[dhuusa_deer]

another stupid analogy.

For starters, you would have to conclude the watch had a maker. From experience you know that a instrument of such intricacies and precision had to be put together by conscience being. But that conscience be had to have the knowledge AND the tools to put it together. And the maker got his tools and knowledge from his predecessors. So on and so forth.

Now compare that to God who according to theists has no past, no one to have passed on knowledge to him. He is simply is. And he is claimed to have created the everything. Yet there is NO sign whatsoever to suggest intelligent being creating our world. If there was a creator, then you would expect, with the watch being an example, a perfect and orderly world. Or one closely resembling. But the world is imperfect and disorderly. Any competent engineer blessed with God's powers would have created far more better world then God is claimed to have created.

It is the undeniable truth that the universe works under certain natural laws we come to call invariant natural laws. Is God above these laws or is he constricted by them when he created the universe?

Certainly for us humans we are governed by inveriant natural laws. The man who sees a watch in the desert will know that natural laws of this universe rule out the possibility it being their from nowhere, it must have a creator. There is cause and effect (safe quantum mechanics world, the rest of the world is pretty much deterministic). We know what can and can't do. What is possible and what isn't.

But there is no way for us to know about what laws govern God. Most theist will say God is above these laws. Then if that is the case, it will be true that what we know as invariant natural laws are not laws at all and there exist universal natural laws which govern God himself. These laws are still unkown to us.

Interesting stuff. Bad analogy.