31 Quotes About New-atheism
- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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From where did all the initial matter and material processes through which we explain the recipe of life come from? All that we have done through science is to use the pre-existing matter inside the universe in ways that benefit us by exploiting the cause and effect relations from observation and experimentation.
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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Human rationality is not confined to believing only in physically observable realities. Even though Prof. Lawrence Krauss thinks that the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, science would come at a standstill when faced with realities that are not physical. Science would not tell us about the motive, will and morals definitively.
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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Science has made us truly amazed at how we exist through fine- tuned balance in numerous variables. The natural question is for what purpose? Can aspiration of getting a due reward for right conduct is possible for everyone? Can absolute justice ever be established? Is everlasting happiness achievable? Can the outlaws responsible for genocide be brought to justice ever? Can the honest and truthful people who suffer unjust lives be duly compensated, if ever?
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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Science can inform and identify moral dilemmas by highlighting the consequences of actions and inactions, but it cannot compel us to do the morally right things as influenced by some objective values and morality. Given the opportunity cost of every economic activity, we buy more luxuries despite there being one in nine people going to bed hungry and hundreds of thousands of people dying from curable diseases which can be prevented for an individual in less than the cost of a hamburger.
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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Have we created ourselves? If not and if we have been created, then the intellect with which we discover knowledge about the matter in physical sciences to answer the question of 'What is' and the conscience with which we differentiate between right and wrong, are both created and bestowed by Allah.
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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The Creator introduces Himself rather than some people filling the gap with an assumed deity. Qur’an provides evidence of its divinity since its descriptive accuracy of nature (even though mentioned only as a supplement to its core message) is not contradicted by established facts of modern science. The unity of origin (Tawheed) is also consistent with the order and design manifested in the universe.
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- Author Salman Ahmed Shaikh
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meaning to life and what we and others do in it. Else, in a godless paradigm, it is just a game of survival of the fittest. Animals play it as well as humans with no difference between the two in the godless view of life.
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- Author Victor J. Stenger
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We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
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- Author Christopher Loren
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When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,
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