Science today can explain almost everything we previously didn't know to a fairly good amount of detail and certainty. ......where does God fit into the picture?
you can't find a toshiba laptop in the park and hire a team of people to observe how it works, who then come out with some (sometimes conflicting) descriptions of how it might work, and sometimes find new details proving that their previous hypothesis was wrong,
and then say: where does toshiba fit into this? and since this team (who is not able to create a laptop) has theorized as to how it possibly works (often with no solid evidence), the notion that someone with the know-how actually made it in the first place - and can make more of them - is "redundant", - doesn't make sense.
an eternal, all powerful being with the ability to will creation into being and make laws for them to run by,
makes a lot more sense to me than: something without intelligence somehow randomly appeared out of nothing, collided with other substance in an atmosphere that must have also somehow spontaneously come into existence from nothing, then exploded and separated according to a law which also somehow existed from nowhere, and those particles with no intelligence decided to follow that law (how did they decide?), or the law forced them to comply (how did the law think?),
and out of that came all that we see around us - including our own amazing intelligent creation, which also are forced by a non-willing, unintelligent thing to abide by physical laws, while we have intelligence.........
....forget it, i know it doesn't make sense.
humans are honoured above all creation in that they have a divine spark, the ability to make decisions in a way different from all other creation,
the Quran clearly tells us that God told the angels that He would put a "vicegerent" / "manager"/ "caretaker" / "subsidiary" on earth, one who would have the ability to shed blood and make mischief, and do right. and that He breathed of His spirit into him.
this creation was unique in that it was given the challenge of creating God's Kingdom on Earth - and running it willingly according to His Laws.
it was different to the angels who (like robots) can only follow orders.
their reward would be magnificent, and those who failed or messed it up would "get it", since they were given full control of their affairs - along with a manual.
to help them along - Prophets are sent with guidance and signs,
when you see clear prophecy foretell the future jot by jot - and it is self evident, then a scientist who talks of random processes with no intelligence - should be disregarded as a liar.
if certain people who call themselves establishment pleasing scientists decide to blatantly disregard these miracles and facts staring them in the face and live in denial, it means we have to think for ourselves.
Umm Salama said:
When the Mahdi appears,
God will cause such power of vision and hearing to be manifested in believers
that the Mahdi will call to the whole world from where he is, with no postman involved,
and they will hear and even see him.
neither satellite technology with broadcasting capability, nor tv's or computers with sound and vision existed at the time - how can a man minding sheep in the desert assert something like this 1400 years ago? what did he base this data on? and why would he say something which seemed so ridiculous (at the time) in front of people who were already doing their best to discredit him?
can you imagine living 1400 years ago and trying to understand how someone on the other side of the world would instantly see and hear you? while the man telling you this is having to send messengers with letters to kings across the desert often taking months to return.
