My #NoDesign🙄 Posts And Why Some People Are Atheist — Transcript

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1. 0:03one of the things i love doing every day
2. 0:05on blogging theology is putting up these
3. 0:07no design posts these are ironically
4. 0:09entitled because i don't mean there's no
5. 0:11design i mean the opposite that's why
6. 0:14they have the emoji with the eyes going
7. 0:15up is meant to be how could you how
8. 0:17could you deny how could you not see
9. 0:20that there is design
10. 0:22that god has designed the universe and
11. 0:25everything in it
12. 0:27now that's all well and good and they're
13. 0:29popular and i love doing them and i get
14. 0:30them from all over the internet from
15. 0:32facebook groups and all sorts of places
16. 0:35but why though this is the question or
17. 0:38the video why do atheists
18. 0:40still hang out and deny this because
19. 0:42they put comments under these no design
20. 0:45posts saying ah this darwinian evolution
21. 0:48did this nothing to do with god so they
22. 0:50deny these signs of god's creative power
23. 0:54in the universe so what are we to make
24. 0:56of them why do they say these things and
25. 0:59i think there are two uh answers one of
26. 1:02which um i'll read from the quran and
27. 1:05another is some reflections on the state
28. 1:08of mind of our soul of our fitra in the
29. 1:11way we see the world and in
30. 1:14in surah 10 called jonah in english
31. 1:18verse 101 we read this
32. 1:22say o prophet
33. 1:24consider all that is in the heavens and
34. 1:27the earth
35. 1:28so the quran is inviting us to think
36. 1:31consider all that is in the heavens and
37. 1:34the earth
38. 1:36yet neither signs nor warners are of any
39. 1:40benefit to those who refuse to believe
40. 1:45are they waiting for anything except the
41. 1:47same torments that befell those before
42. 1:50them
43. 1:51say
44. 1:52keep waiting then
45. 1:54i too am waiting with you
46. 1:57then we saved our messengers and those
47. 2:01who believed
48. 2:02for it is our duty to save the believers
49. 2:05and that's in uh this translation the
50. 2:08clear quran
51. 2:10and i like this verse 102
52. 2:14sorry 101 yet neither signs nor warners
53. 2:18are of any benefit to those who refuse
54. 2:21to believes an actor will hear
55. 2:24they refuse to believe
56. 2:27and in islam this is fascinating concept
57. 2:30of the fitra to affirm and to recognize
58. 2:33the creator the crate of the heavens and
59. 2:36the earth is an instinct implanted
60. 2:40into the soul of every human being
61. 2:43that's ever lived this is part of who we
62. 2:45are as a species
63. 2:48now god's existence is known through
64. 2:51this fitra this is a word from the quran
65. 2:53and from the hadith meaning our natural
66. 2:56instinct our natural disposition is an
67. 2:59innate faculty of perception
68. 3:03through this fitra we can know right
69. 3:06from wrong truth from falsehood
70. 3:09and the fitra has the potential to see
71. 3:11the light of truth and by it we come to
72. 3:15acknowledge not only god's existence but
73. 3:18also his omnipotence greatness and
74. 3:21superiority to everything else in the
75. 3:25universe
76. 3:27and just as we know is certainty with
77. 3:29certitude that there is a sun when we
78. 3:32observe its light we also know that
79. 3:35there is a personal god
80. 3:37once we see any one of a multitude of
81. 3:40signs
82. 3:41everything in the world
83. 3:43is a sign of the creator
84. 3:46be it an insect
85. 3:48the sun
86. 3:49a stone a humble stone a river
87. 3:53a mountain and so on and so on these are
88. 3:57all signs
89. 3:59and the signs are innumerable they're
90. 4:02limitless
91. 4:04limitless and each and every one points
92. 4:07to the one and only creator
93. 4:11and god is seen in every sign for no
94. 4:15sign be it ever so humble be a little
95. 4:18pebble
96. 4:19can exist
97. 4:21without having been created
98. 4:24by god
99. 4:25and this is the answer really to the
100. 4:27atheist that we are endowed innately
101. 4:30with this ability to apprehend the
102. 4:32creator we don't need sophisticated
103. 4:34theological or philosophical arguments
104. 4:36to prove the existence of god and
105. 4:39on that basis believe in his existence
106. 4:42no it is something that all humble human
107. 4:45beings have innately
108. 4:48and so the atheist
109. 4:50for reasons for many reasons as some
110. 4:52atheists are consumed with anger by god
111. 4:55and there's some surveys scientific
112. 4:57surveys that have actually demonstrated
113. 4:59this
114. 5:00uh many atheists are consumed with anger
115. 5:02by god could be a disappointment in life
116. 5:03it could be
117. 5:05some tragedy some
118. 5:07job loss it could be a relationship
119. 5:08failure it could be something apparently
120. 5:11trivial
121. 5:12which has ignited this
122. 5:15uh rebellion and
123. 5:17for many people the worst thing you can
124. 5:19do to someone who has hurt you or has
125. 5:22perceived or is perceived to have hurt
126. 5:23you
127. 5:24is not just to hate them but to deny
128. 5:27their existence
129. 5:28you apparently wipe them out from your
130. 5:31from your memory from your consciousness
131. 5:33i say apparently because the reality is
132. 5:35it's still there of course it rankles
133. 5:38there's still anger the disappointment
134. 5:40the sense of betrayal perhaps
135. 5:43and this i think is at the root a lot of
136. 5:45atheism people are not really atheists
137. 5:48but they're very angry with god because
138. 5:50of some experience that has some
139. 5:52disappointment and this is rooted in uh
140. 5:55this anger
141. 5:57so that would be my explanation but the
142. 5:59signs are still there they're still
143. 6:02innumerable in the universe
144. 6:04and for those who have their fitra
145. 6:06intact pure like like babies
146. 6:10for whom it's not corrupted
147. 6:13apprehending god knowing god is very uh
148. 6:17very simple and direct and doesn't need
149. 6:20proof of a of a logical or philosophical
150. 6:23kind just as they can see the sun
151. 6:26and apprehend its rays and its warmth
152. 6:29and its light they can apprehend the
153. 6:31reality of god and his existence and his
154. 6:34omnipotence and greatness and
155. 6:35superiority to everything else
156. 6:38in the universe in other words it's
157. 6:41axiomatic it's self-evident to the vast
158. 6:44number of the human race today
159. 6:47and throughout history so atheists for a
160. 6:50variety of reasons i had to step with
161. 6:52what it is to be human our human
162. 6:54condition our fitra
163. 6:56and the reasons why they're atheists
164. 6:58often to do with
165. 7:00personal issues in their past which are
166. 7:03unresolved and that's why many atheists
167. 7:05obsess with god obsessed with attacking
168. 7:08people who have faith and i've noticed
169. 7:10this you see this on
170. 7:12social media twitter whatever they're
171. 7:14constantly attacking people why would
172. 7:16they do this why bother you know but
173. 7:17they're clearly unresolved personal
174. 7:20issues so
175. 7:21we we hope and we pray that they will
176. 7:23return to this natural state of healthy
177. 7:26belief which is as i say instilled
178. 7:29in their condition their fitra this
179. 7:32natural instinct to believe and of
180. 7:34course it's based on reality it's based
181. 7:36on innumerable signs
182. 7:38in the universe and and that why it's
183. 7:41not just about intelligent design ah
184. 7:43isn't this a marvel of engineering in
185. 7:45nature like dna of course it is a marvel
186. 7:48of engineering is a marvelous design but
187. 7:50everything in the universe including as
188. 7:52i say the humble
189. 7:54pebble the humble blade of grass the
190. 7:56existence of the sun itself and the
191. 7:58universe itself these are all
192. 8:00innumerable signs
193. 8:02of the creative power of god
194. 8:05so um
195. 8:06how long can i keep going with my no
196. 8:08design posts well in theory infinitely
197. 8:11but of course my own lifespan will not
198. 8:12know that but now this is uh there's
199. 8:15infinite treasures to to share and
200. 8:16they're imam boosting because they
201. 8:18affirm
202. 8:20the truth they turn the truth of faith
203. 8:22the truth the reality of god and they
204. 8:24sit very comfortably and naturally
205. 8:26within our own human condition our own
206. 8:29instinct which is to believe in this
207. 8:31truth and to think about it the quran
208. 8:34constantly says think reflect consider
209. 8:37and of course the uh no design posts
210. 8:41help to do that inshallah to help us to
211. 8:44reflect on uh god's glory and god's
212. 8:47creative power um so there we are that's
213. 8:49my reflection on
214. 8:51no design posts until next time