1. The Big Bang, who or what caused it? And, “It happened, so what?” is not an answer, it’s evading the question.
2. Gravity, who/what put it there and who/what keeps it the same?
3. Do you accept human law (submission to the will of the majority) even if it is disagreeable to you or acting against you.
4. Here’s one I couldn’t get to in the content. Can you tell me who does the selection in Natural Selection? Is it Mother Nature? Does she have a daughter ;-).
5. Finally, you say that your morals and values were not shaped by your experience with Islam or Islamic culture in your childhood. Is it possible that they were in fact shaped by your very negative experience and encouters with what appeared to be Islam at the time (and apparently still appears that way)?
My answers:
* 1. I do not know who that person was.
* 2. I do not know who that person was (I had no idea it was a person!).
* 3. It depends, because I could answer this question either way. So yes/no depending on whether that meant torturing babies or you may not speak out against religious belief.
* 4. I think its more Mother Nature’s second-cousin
* 5. No it does not.
These are all quite loaded questions. It also assumes any being was responsible for any of these things? Evolution by natural selection is as Darwin says “unguided”. The Big Bang is so far the best theory we have. The decisions of the state are always always always man-made.
I wonder why you think there has to be a person cranking the levers? Do you think it would fall apart unless Allah is there making sure the earth does not spin off its axis, that he selectively produced Homo sapiens? Surely you can understand that the evidence shows otherwise that there is no need for anyone to be selecting any genes or other replicators?
Anyway, that’s about as much as I can formulate as my head is trilling with the ShutUp AlarmTM. So, I hope I have answered your questions. And until I have engaged with Azami, Ramadan, Lawrence, etc. (in some cases, again!) we will suspend our discussions on certain aspects.
If some parts are a bit obscure, forgibve me – I was very tired when I wrote this!
Your summary (and very loaded!) questions:
1. The Big Bang, who or what caused it? And, “It happened, so what?” is not an answer, it’s evading the question.
2. Gravity, who/what put it there and who/what keeps it the same?
3. Do you accept human law (submission to the will of the majority) even if it is disagreeable to you or acting against you.
4. Here’s one I couldn’t get to in the content. Can you tell me who does the selection in Natural Selection? Is it Mother Nature? Does she have a daughter ;-).
5. Finally, you say that your morals and values were not shaped by your experience with Islam or Islamic culture in your childhood. Is it possible that they were in fact shaped by your very negative experience and encouters with what appeared to be Islam at the time (and apparently still appears that way)?
My answers:
* 1. I do not know who that person was.
* 2. I do not know who that person was (I had no idea it was a person!).
* 3. It depends, because I could answer this question either way. So yes/no depending on whether that meant torturing babies or you may not speak out against religious belief.
* 4. I think its more Mother Nature’s second-cousin
* 5. No it does not.
These are all quite loaded questions. It also assumes any being was responsible for any of these things? Evolution by natural selection is as Darwin says “unguided”. The Big Bang is so far the best theory we have. The decisions of the state are always always always man-made.
I wonder why you think there has to be a person cranking the levers? Do you think it would fall apart unless Allah is there making sure the earth does not spin off its axis, that he selectively produced Homo sapiens? Surely you can understand that the evidence shows otherwise that there is no need for anyone to be selecting any genes or other replicators?
Anyway, that’s about as much as I can formulate as my head is trilling with the ShutUp AlarmTM. So, I hope I have answered your questions. And until I have engaged with Azami, Ramadan, Lawrence, etc. (in some cases, again!) we will suspend our discussions on certain aspects.
If some parts are a bit obscure, forgibve me – I was very tired when I wrote this!
Hope to hear from you soon! Cheers for now.
Tauriq
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