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I cannot agree more with with Dr. Sohail when
he says that " I
am of the opinion that human beings are
primarily emotional beings and decide for
emotional reasons…love or hate, affection or
jealousy, war or peace. After their emotional
motivation they find a rational reasoning to
act of their wishes and use personal, social,
religious or political ideology or philosophy
to justify it." The
reason is that when the brain receives any
information from outside, it is coupled with
emotions and then processed completely. I
think humans should out grow religion as it
has passed well beyond its shelf life. It was
a thing of past and should remain in past. Its
hard to make any sense of religion in the
modern world. Humans should be brave enough to
accept our limitations and the fact that we
don't have explanation of everything. The God
hypothesis is a failed one and we should let
it go now.
Many people have an image of God as a sort of
engineer lightning the blue touch-paper to
ignite the big bang, and then sitting back to
watch the show. Unfortunately, this simple
picture, while highly compelling to some, makes
little sense. A supernatural creation cannot be
a causative act in time, for the coming
into-being of time is part of what we are trying
to explain. If God is invoked as an explanation
for the physical universe, then this explanation
cannot be in terms of familiar cause and effect.
Unless we have other reasons to believe in God's
existence then merely proclaiming " God created
the universe" is totally ad hoc. It is no
explanation at all. The statement is essentially
devoid of meaning, for we are merely defining
God to be that agency which creates the
universe. Our understanding is no further
advanced by this device. One mystery ( the
origin of universe) is explained only in terms
of another (God). According to Occam's razor God
hypothesis should be rejected as an unnecessary
complication. After all we are bound to ask,
what created God?
If we take God's existence as necessary, then
whatever whatever logic is used to justify
God's necessary existence could equally well,
and with advantage gained in simplicity, be
applied to the universe.
Good theories provide a simplifying picture pf
nature by establishing connections between
disconnected phenomena. In addition, good
theories suggest observation tests. They also
provide detailed mechanistic accounts of
precisely how the physical processes of
interest happen in terms of the concepts of
the theory. A good theory gives you precise
mechanism of how things work. By contrast, a
God theory is invoked only to explain the big
bang fails in all three criteria. Far from
simplifying our view of the world, a Creator
introduces an additional complicating feature,
itself without explanation. Second, these is
no way we can test the hypothesis
experimentally. Finally the bald statement
"God created the universe" fails to provide
any real explanation unless it is accompanied
by a detailed mechanism. one wants to know,
for example, what properties to assign this
God, and precisely how he goes about creating
the universe, why the universe has the form it
does, and so on.
Religion only creates
divisions and hatred.
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