NO! you got it all wrong. it is not about arrogance or anything like that It's about fact and fiction. The things that exist can be detected by my senses it's simple as that. And yes I am concerned with the material because technically everything real is made up of atoms, No one doubts the existance of the sun right? what dumbass would do that. The sun is up there big ass yellow star everyone can see what it does but you have to ask yourself why anyone would doubt God and not the sun and you'll know why I stopped believing in "God"
You're right dropping religion will not give us all answers to the universe but It will take us one step further because people won't be scared of going to hell for accepting scientific facts that do not agree with their religion. there will be more scientists and more brains to working together.
Also religion and Science can never be compatible. Religion is what made billions of people still believe that the earth is flat and the sun goes around the earth. Religion is also what makes billions think that a woman was created from a man when it's scientifically the opposite.
I didn't say that a creator of the universe wouldn't exist. Maybe something created all the shit we see but The Abrahamic God, Krishna, Buddha, Zeus, Hermes, Waaq, Enga. etc is all the same ancient fiction used by the past people to explain stuff they don't know like rain or snow or oceans etc.
You can test Allah today if you want and see if He truly exists but Allah cannot be questioned , tested or doubted , anyone who questions will go to hell according to Islam so you are forced to keep believing. That is exactly how Islam or any religion survived this long.
Once again, you're talking about the WESTERN/CHRISTIAN experience of the last few hundred years.
People in the past did not find a conflict between secular and religious, the west did and they dealt with the problems of Christianity and modernity by rejecting religion and limiting the power of the church.Once they did that they progressed. They then conquered our lands and then our minds and exported their reasoning and thinking to us.
For example, Al Khawarizmi was studying the science of maths, he was also a xaafid Qur'an like all Muslims scholars and men of science and he also studied hadith and tafsir.. The concept of secular knowledge and religious knowledge did not exist in Islam it is a totally alien product.
And plenty of Muslim scholars and the Qur'an itself hints at the world being round... any references of flatness is referenced to its surface
But anyway, back to the material. You became an atheist because you can't see God. Well, friend, you can see the sun but can you look at it without going blind?
The reason I ask that is One can compare the atheist to a man who is born blind and refuses to acknowledge the existence of light because he cannot perceive light. This blind man's very existence depends on light, yet his inability to perceive it allows him to deny what is so obvious to the sighted. No amount of rational argument, evidence, facts and proof will convince him because he has limited himself to trusting in his faulty perception. To expand on this example, the human being is incapable of perceiving reality in its entirety. For instance, we must rely on the opinions of theoreticians to understand what our limited perceptions cannot perceive as atoms, neutrons, protons, and the mysterious properties of matter and energy which quantum physics explores. The opinions of these theoreticians are often accepted without question, because their theories seem to explain the nature of the universe that we can perceive. So, science divides the universe into the 'seen' (perceptible) and the 'unseen' (imperceptible) in order to account for existence and substance.
Islam has stated the case for the imperceptible universe long before Western theoreticians offered their ideas on the subject. Islam explains that both the perceptible and the imperceptible universe were created in one act. Q 21:30: "Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe?"
From Surah ArRahman, we know that the heavens are divided into one perceived universe and 6 imperceptible universes or heavens. In other words the perceptible and the imperceptible are different states of the same substance/essence; the imperceptible being progressively more refined as it moves away from the perceptible. Isn't that what quantum physics is now discovering? In Islam, the ultimate imperception is the uncaused cause or Allah who is totally removed from the creation because He caused creation and, therefore, is not part of it. Allah is the ultimate reality, the ultimate refinement and the ultimate truth. Quran has promoted the information regarding the perceptible and the imperceptible states of existence for 1400 years. If we live long enough and are really patient, maybe the world of science will conclude what Muslims have known for a millennium and a half.
