Why believe in your religion's "unseen" claims and disbelieve in other religion's "unseen" claims? There have been several thousand religions throughout history (most of them are extinct), and all these had their own "unseen" claims. Humans have a tendency to invoke a supernatural agent when they don't understand something, but in today's age of science and technology, you should be able to see through all these claims.
i think you have a similar unseen claim as i do, science is a tool, to that which u fall back on, and have turned this in to your religion. there are things that as a limited human i nor any other human can explain.
however before this you think about the universe, and i belive that we as humans can determine that there is a creator of the universe. science is a discovery of the rules that this creator has put into the universe. but science cannot prove many things. and to have such faith is a tool is really diabolical.
Firstly Johnny, you didn't answer my question.
Try again please.
Secondly, you say science is the tool I use. Of course it is. What makes you think your tool called Islam is better. Science is the best tool we have. You yourself have faith in it. The computer you are staring at right now was built by science, and the all the technology around you e.g. phones, TV, radios, lightbulbs, microwaves, cameras, electricity etc. Why do you have faith in the aeroplane flying safely at 30000ft?
How come your religion (or any other religion) couldn't build all this technology?
And by the way, science is a method of reaching the truth. If you want to call this a religion, fine. It seems to be the only religion that is building all the technology in the world. Hmmmm...
I assume you as a Muslim believe in a
personal God. Can you provide solid
positive evidence for all the claims that Islam makes. Science produces evidence for all its claims and makes those claims with the level of conviction that is proportional to the strength of the evidence. So if you claim that there are Jinns, for example, you have to provide positive evidence that they exist. Otherwise it would be hypocritical for you to laugh off claims that fairies exist (or witchcraft etc etc).
Muslims hold a vast plethora of absurd beliefs such as:
- a personal God who is: omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient etc (and btw some of these are self-contradictory)
- creationism (in particular that humans came from Adam and Eve)
- heaven, hell and life after death
- angels, the devil and jinns
- devine predestination/fate
- the day of judgement
- the evil eye
- the miracles of all the prophets
- the ascention and second coming of Jesus as well as his virgin birth
- punishment of the grave
- the existence of a soul
- and many more...
If you want us to believe all this, please provide some
proper POSITIVE evidence for each and every one of these claims.
I mean, in science, if someone wants to claim that Bigfoot exists, they have to provide a specimen for other scientists to scrutinise. Otherwise we assume it doesn't exist.
And here is the Michael Shermer "Baloney Detection Kit" video which will might teach you the difference between good evidence and bad evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU
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