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Originally Posted by Zunaid
Reading the subject header, I had visions of an army of ants marching to vanquish all infidels. Ironic that someone is using he bigoted Faux News channel broadcast in support of Islam.
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On a more serious note, Imam Al-Ghazzali, may GOD rest his great soul in peace, explained faith as a light GOD puts inside our hearts. Those who nurture that light see overwhelming evidence of His existence in the beauty and the sheer majesty of of the natural world with all of its unraveling mysteries. Those who do not are the skeptics and will always be skeptical.
He was of the opinion that because knowledge itself is always evolving as that beauty and sheer majesty is unraveled through the erudite sciences and the arts, it is unreasonable to either prove or disprove the existence of GOD using the reason of the day. The focus instead for a believer should be on purification of the soul by being good and doing good simply because it is pleasing to GOD.
Guys like Richard Dawkins and Harun Yahiya, as much as I truly appreciate the dialectal and rhetorical elegance of their respective arguments, are using science and reason to propagate a sociopolitical agenda and ultimately address an issue that is better addressed within an exegetical framework. Scientific observation being decontextualized and modified to fit and justify a preexisting belief or hypothesis is intellectually dishonest and has very little merit as "proof" IMHO.