M.W. Ansari's Blog
February 6, 2021
Is Atheism Rational? Can Science Prove existence of God?
Read with an open mind. For a glass that is full cannot receive
any more water. This small booklet is quick to read and is for
those who are in search of the truth.
Can Order Arise From Chaos?
Does Randomness exist?
When you see the universe do you see order or chaos? The laws of
physics, the constant acceleration of gravity, the exact speed of light, the
time it takes for the earth to rotate around the sun or on its own axis, etc.
Everything points towards order, all planets, moons, stars, galaxies spinning
in perfect unison. If the earth tilts a few degrees or moves a few miles away
or towards the sun, everything on earth will change, life as we know it might
not exist. This careful fine-tuning points towards order.
Can this arise from the chaos of a big bang? The big bang caused all the
particles to expand and collide and created the perfect conditions for life to
exist on this planet over billions of years. Was this a blind process or was this
being guided by an all-knowing external force. If you think this was a blind
process leading to creation of earth, water, life and humans with
consciousness, then consider the example below.
Legos example:
If you take a few hundred pieces of different shaped Legos,
place them in a plastic bag and shake them vigorously over a period of many
days, will they magically arrange themselves into a Lego robot? A Lego robot
that can think, ponder and has consciousness? Is this even possible?
If not then saying that man with all his intellect and intricate complicated
body comes into being with a blind process of big bang with billions of
molecules banging against each other over a long period of time is absurd.
Even a single cell cannot come into being with a blind process, let alone a
conscious being like man. Every cell has a nucleus, DNA, ribosomes,
mitochondria etc, complex systems that require design.
Some people will say that universe and the earth and everything within
it was all due to a random chance. What they are in fact saying is, this all
happened by accident. Let us examine Randomness.
Randomness does not exist:
I start with this because I want this to be clear
and concise. Randomness is something that people say when they cannot
explain a phenomenon. (when they do not have all the information or
variables)
The Billiards Table thought experiment:
The famous French physicist named Pierre-Simon Laplace had this philosophy.
If we know all the variables, then by looking at the past we can predict the future.
Imagine one is playing pool and breaks the table with a shot, one does not know
for sure where all the balls will land and they might say its random. Let’s imagine
there was a divine calculator that can take into effect all the variables, exact
force, friction, angles, air density etc, and give us exactly where all the balls
will fall, then randomness disappears.
Coin flipping Robots:
We have created robots who can predict with 100%
accuracy every time whether the coin is going to be heads or tails as they
flip the coin. These robots calculate based on all the forces applied and are
right every time. This shows again that randomness does not exist, but in
fact it is only our ignorance that we ascribe to randomness. Some would say
we have a pixel and the creator or God must have the picture as God has all
the information.
This is the introduction to my book. It is a very short read (less than an hour) and is written in a very engaging format. There are simple examples and full references at the end. If this intrigues you, please check out my book on Amazon available both in print and on kindle.
