Modern Science finds God
(Perhaps the most important and astounding scientific discovery in human history.)
There was a time when science seemed to be the enemy of religious belief –
that time is no more! Modern physics and cosmology (science of the origin
and development of the universe) now provide firm objective evidence of
the existence of God, confirm the primary attributes of God, and show how
God created the physical existence out of ‘nothingness’. This knowledge
comes from a critical analysis of the ‘Big Bang’ theory, Einstein’s Special
Theory of Relativity, and work being done in quantum physics. The
concepts behind this esoteric scientific knowledge can now be presented in
such a way as to be understood by any person with a modern education.
1. We now know according to the most widely accepted theories of
cosmology that the physical universe we see today was created out of
nothingness (meaning – no time, no space, and no matter).
2. We also know that the beginning of the creation of the universe took
place by light coming into existence at a singularity (a point with no
dimension).
3. We know that the matter of the physical universe was brought into
being by photons (little packages of light energy) which, when
colliding with each other, formed the virtually infinite number of
protons, neutrons and electrons, which in various combinations make
up everything in our physical world.
4. In essence we can now accurately say that all the matter of the
physical universe, ourselves included, is actually light slowed down.
5. We know that the space which contains our physical universe is
expanding. This is a concept so alien to human thought that until
Albert Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity early in
the 20th century it had never occurred to any of the world’s great
minds, but was stated in the Qur’an over 1400 years ago when Allah
told us, “I am expanding the universe with my power”. Even Einstein
was so astounded by his discovery that he falsified his data to show a
universe that was not expanding, because he well understood that an
expanding universe implies there was somewhere in the distant past a
moment of creation for the universe.
6. Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (which he actually called his
Absolutism Theorem because he realized he had found the one thing
in a relative universe that was absolute) is about the special qualities
of light.
7. The Special Theory of Relativity allows us our first objective glimpse
into that which exists beyond the material world.
8. We could have found anything once we got our first glimpse beyond
the material world, but what we did find is indeed remarkable. We
find Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity showing us that the nonmaterial existence beyond the physical world consists only of
absolutes, and some of those absolutes are remarkably similar to what
everyone’s religion has considered to be among the primary attributes
of God.
9. Example One: As the speed of light (300,000km per second) is
approached then time slows, and at the speed of light time does not
pass. This means for a photon of light which travels at exactly the
speed of light, time does not pass. Therefore the photon is outside of
time, and ETERNAL.
10. Example Two: Since no time passes for a photon of light, and that
photon can be observed at different places in space, therefore that
photon of light is simultaneously in those different places (and many
other places) at the same time, and therefore OMNIPRESENT.
11. Example Three: Since every bit of matter in the physical universe is
created by the energy of light, and that light energy constantly sustains
and directs the activity of every bit of matter in the physical existence,
then there is no power other than the power of light, light energy is all
the power that exists, and therefore OMNIPOTENT.
12. Example Four: Since all knowledge that exists, that ever existed, or
will exist, is stored by light energy and transmitted through light
energy then there is no knowledge beyond that intrinsic to light, and
therefore OMNISCIENT.
13. Furthermore, light does not actually exist within the physical
existence although we can somehow perceive it. As you approach the
speed of light one of the three dimensions (length, height, or width),
the dimension in line with the direction of motion, becomes
progressively less, and at the speed of light that dimension becomes
zero. To determine volume we multiply height times width times
length, but if any one of those three dimensions is zero then the
volume is zero, and that thing therefore does not exist in the material
universe. Light occupies no volume of space and therefore has no
existence in the physical universe.
14. And, while everything in the physical universe has some mass greater
than zero, which is a necessary characteristic for existence in the
material world, light has no mass at all. As you approach the speed of
light mass increases, at the speed of light mass is infinite. Regardless
of how tiny the amount of mass you begin with, that mass rises to
infinity at the speed of light. Since photons travel at the speed of light
and do not reach infinite mass it means that they had zero mass to
begin with, and light therefore does not actually exist in the material
world.
15. In the physical existence everything is relative, the absolute existence
or non-existence of any quality is not and can not be expressed,
everything exists between those two extremes of the continuum from
absolute expression to absolute non-expression. We find, though, that
beyond the material existence all qualities exist either in an infinite
state or have no existence at all, there is nothing in between.
The great significance of the above findings is that they destroy any possible
notion of the physical universe existing as a fixed number of material
particles which are moved about by a fixed set of physical laws. It is exactly
this incorrect understanding of the physical existence which forms the basis
of the scientific philosophy of materialism. It is the philosophy of
materialism, particularly secular materialism, which has allowed the belief in
God to be so powerfully challenged by unbelievers in these past few
hundred years, more or less from the time of Sir Isaac Newton.
It is no longer intellectually possible nor logically reasonable, in light of the
finding of modern physics and cosmology, to hold the view of the atheists
(that there is no God). The only logically reasonable, and intellectually
honest, conclusion that can be drawn from the findings of modern science is
that God does exist, that the attributes of God are absolute, and that God did
create the physical universe (including human life). We are presently at the
beginning of the transition point from a secular materialistic world-view to a
spiritual, God-centered world-view.
NOTE: These are only some of the simplified conclusions of a major work in progress,
but we felt they are of such great significance that we had an obligation to offer them to
the ummah (the human society of Allah’s Creation). The scientific facts behind these
interpretations represent a virtual consensus by a number of the world’s leading
physicists, including several Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicists. The
interpretations themselves are at the cutting-edge of Islamic theological thought, but have
so far been very warmly received by Muslim scholars across the world.