Does God Exist?

Salam, this is one of the answer we can give to atheists regarding the question of "Does God Exist". I've posed this to many atheists but yet till now no atheists could refute this explanations not even the particle physicists. This explanations explains the "Kalam Cosmological Argument" by Al-Kindi and Al-Ghazali in Medieval Islam and later popularized by christian apologist Dr. William Lane Craig. Hope this can be a little help for today's "Sharing Islam With The World" :) 

Things that began to exist were either: 

1. Created or brought into being from nothing

2. Self caused or self created

3. Created or brought into being by an uncaused entity 

Some philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and scientists such as Dr. Stephen Hawking, Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Dr. Carl Sagan etc. argued that the universe is eternal, meaning it has no beginning and no ending. However if we think about this we will conclude that this position is irrational. If the universe never had a beginning it means there must be an infinite history of past events. Yet does an actual infinite exist in the real world? The great mathematician David Hilbert argues for the notion that a beginningless series of events with no higher cause is impossible. ( "On the Infinite" in Philosophy and Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice Hall), 1964, 139 - 141 ) 

Say you have an infinite number of books in a library, if I take 2 books away from the shelf, how many do you have left? Infinity. Does that make sense? Well, there should be two less than infinity, and if there is, then we should be able to count how many books you have. But this is impossible, because the infinite is just an idea and doesn’t exist in the real world. 

1. Created or brought into being from nothing: 

We know the universe couldn’t have come out of nothing, because out of nothing, nothing comes! This is an undeniable philosophical principle. A significant point to raise here is that nothingness should not be misconstrued as the nothingness that some physicists talk about. The term nothingness in this context refers to the absence of anything physical, in other words there is no pre-existing ‘stuff’. In light of the beginning of the universe, there was absolutely nothing before it began to exist, which is why physicists have explained the universe as having a space-time boundary. 

2. Self caused or self created: 

Philosophically, the universe couldn’t have created itself because that would imply a paradox. It would mean that something can exist and not exist at the same time. The logical ends of this explanation are tantamount to saying that your mother gave birth to herself which is simply preposterous. 

3. Created or brought into being by an uncaused entity: 

Since something cannot come from nothing, and self creation is absurd, including the unreasonableness of the mentioned explanation, then the universe being created or brought into existence by an uncaused entity is the best explanation. This concept is intuitive but also agrees with reality: whatever begins to exist has a cause or a creator. This cause or creator must be uncaused due to the absurdity of an infinite regress, in other words an indefinite chain of causes. To illustrate this better, if the cause of the universe had a cause and that cause had a cause ad infinitum, then there wouldn’t be a universe to talk about in the first place. 

Qur'an 112:1-4 

He is Allah, who is One and Only,
Allah, the Eternal,
He Neither Begets nor is He Begotten,
Nor is there to Him any Equivalent.

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An excellent response by Muhammad Al Siddiq.
This was posted on FCR Alumni group on Facebook
I feel the need to share/keep it on my blog for future reference :)

Benedict Cumberbatch is the narrator ahh!!! :P