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Existence of God

Existence of God. Prepared by Tayyab Pirzada, student of neuroscience at the university of toronto. Overview. Existence of God Truth of Islam Experiencing God. Kalām cosmological argument. Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence ;

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Existence of God

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  1. Existence of God Prepared by Tayyab Pirzada, student of neuroscience at the university of toronto

  2. Overview • Existence of God • Truth of Islam • Experiencing God

  3. Kalām cosmological argument Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence; If the universe has a beginning of its existence; Therefore: The universe has a cause of its existence.

  4. Laws of Thermodynamics • First Law: Energy cannot be created or destroyed but only conserved • Second Law: The universe increases in entropy (chaos) with every spontaneous chemical reaction • Third Law: The entropy of a pure crystalline substance at Absolute Zero temperature is 0

  5. Entropy • Entropy is chaos (disorder) Humans are low entropy (high order)

  6. Boltzmann Equation Entropy = Boltzmann Constant (Gas Constant/Avagadro’s Number) to the natural logarithm of W (the number of microstates in a macrostate, i.e. the number of energetically equivalent ways to arrange atoms in a compound) Entropy = Chaos

  7. Entropy: Disorder Slowly Destroying the Universe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGIBPOhfbok (30:40 to 33:15)

  8. Boltzmann Equation in the Qur’an كل من عليها فان “Everything upon this (universe) dies.” (Qur’an 55:27)

  9. Second Law of Thermodynamics

  10. Heat Death of the Universe

  11. First Cause of the Universe • The universe is gradually, irreversibly increasing in entropy (disorder; chaos) with each spontaneous reaction, and energy always goes from a hot system to a cold one. • Since the Universe has not suffered a heat death yet, this indicates that the Universe had a beginning and is not infinite. With that said, anything that is finite, must have a Creator.

  12. The Secrets of the Qur’an • "The God of Islam is the same God who is visible in the mirror of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has not presented a new God but has presented the same God who is presented by the light of man’s heart, by the conscience of man, and by the universe.“ • “The Qur’an opens the doors to hundreds of insights and eternal truths regarding spiritual medicine and also physical medicine.” - Promised Messiah (as)

  13. Truth of the Qur’an • The Qur’an contains scientific prophecies fulfilled in modern times • How could the Prophet Muhammad (sa) have known these things 1400 years ago? • Therefore the Qur’an is the Word of God

  14. Truthfulness of the Qur’an from Science and Modern Technology سَنُرِيهِمۡ ءَايَـٰتِنَا فِى ٱلۡأَفَاقِ وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِہِمۡ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمۡ أَنَّهُ ٱلۡحَقُّ‌ۗ “Soon We will show them Our Signs in the Horizons, and in their own bodies until they understand that it is the truth.” [41:54] • Qur’an and Cosmology • Qur’an and Human Biology • Qur’an and Modern Technology • Qur’an and Plant Biology • Qur’an and Astrobiology

  15. Big Bang Theory “Do the atheists not see that the universe was a closed up mass, then We exploded it out?” [21:31]

  16. Creation of Stars and Planets • “Then He turned to the universe when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth: Come both of you, willingly or not. They said: We come, obedient.” [41:12] • Star formation occurs by molecular interstellar clouds which are 70% hydrogen gas and some helium Pillars of Creation Nebula with Star Formation

  17. Expansion of the Universe • “And the universe We built with Our ownhands and indeed We go on expanding it.” [51:48] • Discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1929 (1,297 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad [sa])

  18. Abiogenesis • “And We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” [21:31] • “He created man from dry ringing clay like pieces of pottery.” [55:15] Miller-Urey Experiment • Proved amino acids biogenesis could occur in a hydrogen-rich reducing primordial atmosphere in the Ocean Polymerization in Clay • Hydrolysis reaction (breaking of peptide bonds) occurs in water, therefore polymerization of first amino acids must have occurred on clay

  19. Human Embryology • “Then We placed him as a drop of sperm in a safe depository; Then We fashioned the sperm into a clot; then We fashioned the clot into a shapelesslump; then We fashioned bones out of this shapeless lump; then We clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed it into another creation.” [23:14-15]  • Dr. Keith Moore, professor of anatomy, in the Faculty of Surgery at the University of Toronto Medical School verified that the Qur’anic account of human embryology is in line with modern biomedical science in the 1980’s

  20. Evolutionary Neuroanatomy and Psychodynamic Psychology • “The state of self is surely prone to enjoin evil.” [12:54] • “And I do call to witness the self-accusing state of self.” [74:3] • “And you, O state of self at peace!” [89:28]

  21. Frontal Lobe Evolution • Frontal lobe of cerebral cortex has evolved greatest in size and function in humans • Involved with higher thought, language, and abstract cognitive function • Other animals also have frontal lobes but at smaller sizes (hence less higher thought) • Chimpanzees can produce sign language but cannot conceptualize abstract concepts like humans • Other lobes are fairly similar in humans as other animals (i.e. the neuroanatomical regions responsible for breathing, eating, mating etc.)

  22. Genetic Engineering • “And he (Satan) said…’and assuredly I will incite them and they will alter the creation of Allah.’” [4:119-120]

  23. Prediction of Social Media and Modern Communication Systems “And when various people are brought together.”[81:8]

  24. Plant Reproduction • “(God is the One Who) sent water down from the sky and thereby We brought forth genders of plants each separate from the other.” [20:54]

  25. Extra-terrestrial Life • “Allah is He Who created seven (many) galaxies, and of the earth many others like it.” [65:13] • “And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and of whatever living organisms He has spread forth in both. And He has the power to gather them together when He will so please.” [42:30] Earth is in precise Goldilocks Zone in proximity to the Sun, necessary for planet to be biophilic; another sign of God

  26. Drake’s Equation • “The dwellers of the heaven and the dwellers of the earth glorify Him. This is an indication that other planets in the universe are also populated and their dwellers follow Divine guidance.” – Promised Messiah (as) in “Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam” pg. 103 Drake’s Equation: N = R* x fpx ne x flx fi x fCx L N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible; R* = the average number of star formation per year in our galaxy fp= the fraction of those stars that have planets ne= the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets fl= the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point fi= the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations) fC= the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space

  27. Beauty of Life and the Universe ٱلشَّمۡسُ وَٱلۡقَمَرُ بِحُسۡبَانٍ۬ وَٱلنَّجۡمُ وَٱلشَّجَرُ يَسۡجُدَانِ  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU “The sun and moon are in orbit. And the stars and plants both submit (to Allah).” [55:4-5]

  28. Numerical Miracles of the Qur’an: Sea-Land Ratio

  29. Numerical Miracles of the Qur’an: Word Repetitions • Dayيوم – 365 times • Month شهر– 12 times • Satan شيطان and Angels ملائكة – Both 88 times • Heaven جنة and Hell جهنم – Both 77 times • Man رجل and Woman إمرأة – Both 23 times • Human karyotype contains 23 chromosomes from father and 23 chromosomes from mother

  30. Experiencing God through Quantum Physics • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: • We can never be certain of exactly where an electron is at any one point in time but only make a probability of where in space it may be (i.e. an atomic orbital) • Electrons are both particles and waves, shown by the double-split experiment • Since we can not be sure of what is exactly going on at the quantum (atomic) level but we can be deterministic at the macroscopic level, this indicates that God may fluctuate and change the universe at an atomic level as He pleases Atomic Orbitals

  31. Double-Split Experiment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlb-HEyOXc0 (27:18 to 30:43)

  32. True Dreams of Scientists • Many scientists have experienced true dreams from God which led to revolutionary discoveries • German chemist Dr. August Kekulé discovered the ring-structure of benzene after seeing a dream of a snake eating its tail • Neuroscientist Dr. Otto Leowi discovered neurotransmission and the first neurotransmitter acetylcholine (involved in muscle function) after seeing and performing an experiment in a dream

  33. Dr. Kekulé’s Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDiDl-ByUd4

  34. Near-Death Experiences • Many individuals have had near-death experiences in which they saw the afterlife (usually heaven) • Dr. Eban Alexander, a neurosurgeon who did not strongly believe in an afterlife or in God, after he was in a coma with limited activity in his cerebral cortex, claimed to have seen heaven and wrote a book on it • Khalifa-tul-Masih IV (rh) explained how an Ahmadi Muslim lady was in a coma and met God in heaven: • Allah told her that she was already dead for many years; she requested Allah to give her more time on Earth • Allah said He would bring her back to Earth and that the doctors would try to give her blood through a needle but she should reject this needle, that they would say she would not have children but she would, and that she would live a long life • When she returned to consciousness, the doctors tried inserting the needle but she refused but they did anyway, and her arm started swelling. She also had children and lived a long life

  35. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin on God • Einstein: • "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." • "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." • "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.“ • Darwin: • “But I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.” • “The theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.”

  36. Pascal’s Wager

  37. Power of Prayer “The weapon of a believer is prayer” – Prophet Muhammad (sa) • Prayer Experiment: • Make a hypothesis that God exists, and start praying. Note down your observations • Anything in life, including all science research, involves effort

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