 أعو بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا أبل قاسم محمد الأمين وعلى أحلبيت طيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المبلومين اللهم صلي على محمد المعالي محمد هذا لا يمكن one to have the accurate amount of time in order to pursue and explore all the major varying philosophies, worldviews and religions in the world This is correct. Likewise, it is not really something befitting for me to discuss whether Scholar of Regile Y or Scholar of Regile X has a slightly nicer system and is slightly more lenient on person Y from deviant sect X. Again, that would not form part of the major questions within a framework or package of beliefs. But in last night's episode we were successfully able to move on to the first major question within any worldview that is to say what is the nature of God And before we can even move on to that question, is there indeed a God? Is there a deity? Is there a Creator who has created us within this system in order that we can know him? And we've stated that whilst certain people would like to argue that atheism is merely the abstract absence of a belief in a God or the negation in the belief in one particular deity and has no further consequences that this is entirely rejected by us because every belief has a consequence and every major belief has a major consequence We observed in last night's episode in which we began to quote from some of the specialists in this field that this is not merely a believer's polemic against a non-believer This is not merely the whims and desires of Yahya Seymour speaking against what the consequences of atheism or a Godless worldview are Rather this is something that has been recognized, highlighted and accepted and even taken pride in by some of the major atheist thinkers of today's age In last night's episode I began citing of course one of the major atheist professors within the contemporary western world And again, not just a materialist who happens to dabble in minor issues of rationality but rather someone specialized in the very discipline that we are concerned with, epistemology, the sources of knowledge This individual, his name is Alex Rosenberg And as I stated yesterday, he is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University specializing in the philosophy of science Not a field, which again is something that any Tom Dick or Harry or any internet polemicist can enter into This is a man that's very specialized in his area of knowledge And a man who knows what he's talking about In his book, The Atheist Guide to Reality He promotes the idea that atheism is not merely the abstract rejection of a belief in God He doesn't buy that whole new atheist argument that I'm just someone who rejects God's existence What do you mean there's other consequences Rather, he embraces full heartedly And even takes pride in embracing Because he believes it's a sincere intellectual thing to do In acknowledging that his belief that there is no God And his belief in the truth of atheism Leads to much more than just a rejection of a Creator What does he state? Let's quote once more what he states He states, there is much more to atheism than its knock-down arguments that there is no God Of course, he's talking about from his perspective We're not too impressed with the arguments that there is no God There is the whole rest of the world view That word I've been utilizing almost daily now That comes along with atheism It's a demanding rigorous breathtaking grip on reality One that has been vindicated beyond reasonable doubt It's called science Alex Rosenberg again recognizes that there is A particular epistemology When it comes to atheism That epistemology would be what we call Scientism So in this framework or theory of knowledge And how we learn things about the universe Alex Rosenberg would say that the sources of knowledge Which are adequate for us Is what is called scientism The belief that through the empirical sciences Through the five senses And the study of the three natural sciences That is to say chemistry, physics, and biology These are the primary sources of knowledge And indeed he would break that down further Till we reach just the science of physics A fact for Alex Rosenberg is a physical fact It's a fact about the physical nature of something So this is the epistemology of The new improved free thinkers of today Those who believe that religion is superstitious Those who believe that we as believers Live in a backwards world In which we offer no rational thinking About the nature of the universe Or indeed about life in general Is that the case Let's see who really has the primitive world view here Allow me to cite once more What this scientific Or scientism's World view would be When it comes to some of the major questions And indeed fortunately for us Professor Alex Rosenberg has done the heavy Grafting for us And he as a proponent and apologist And indeed someone who is promoting This belief in naturalism Is putting forward these views As his answers to these major questions He states and I quote Is there a God As an atheist his answer is no What is the nature of reality What physics says it is So I was not doing a strawman argument Earlier on This is literally what Alex Rosenberg believes What is the purpose of the universe There is none That makes perfect sense of course When he believes that the universe Came out of absolute randomness There is not going to be a purpose for it What is the meaning of life He says and I quote Ditto There is none Why am I here Just dumb luck Your chance Does prayer work Of course not Is there a soul Is it immortal So does the human being Have such a thing Known as a soul And is that soul immortal He responds Are you kidding And of course this is very natural He's a physicalist Does not believe in the existence Of non-physical entities Interesting question next Is there free will Alex Rosenberg's response Not a chance What happens when we die He responds Everything pretty much goes on As before except us Now this is one of the more Interesting questions That is interesting for all viewers Regardless of the religious sect What is the difference between Right and wrong Good and bad He says and I quote Why should I be moral He asks Because it makes you feel better Than being immoral So at the very least He's a nice nihilist Is abortion euthanasia Suicide paying taxes Foreign aid Or anything else You don't like One forbidden Two permissible Or three sometimes obligatory So if we were to frame this In a different way We could ask the questioners Is there anything in life Which is permissible Or obligatory Or occasionally forbidden His response Anything goes Do what you want What is love And how can I find it His response Love is a solution To a strategic interaction problem Don't look for it It will find you when you need it Now this is an interesting question Does history have any meaning Or purpose The previous human endeavors Do they have meaning or purpose He states No sound and fury But signifies nothing Human history in its entirety According to Alex Rosenberg Signifies absolutely nothing Does the human past Have any lessons for our future Listen to this answer Fewer and fewer If it ever had any to begin with So this is the world view That Alex Rosenberg Is promoting These are the answers To the bigger questions Upon the materialistic And scientific world view Of Alex Rosenberg But dear viewers We will come back to Looking at this world view When we go for a quick break Join me after the break Insha'Allah السلام عليكم و رحمة الله But what are some of the problems For Alex Rosenberg's world view here You'll remember when I went Through the list of world views And how we would analyze Each of them I stated in last night's episode That we will be taking The very loyal إمامي إسلاميك And محمدن And when I say محمدن I don't say it in the sense of محمدن The word that these Western colonialist Missionaries used to use I say it of course Referring back Something to the prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم For indeed we follow The original Islam When we look at the محمدن And إمامي principle Of how to debate And analyze the arguments of others We look at one of the principles Which is known as قائدة الإلزام To compel a group of people By the very principles By which they compel themselves And see how things end up A principle very commonly utilized In books like كتاب الإحتجاج Which reflects the nature Of the debates The debate strategies Utilized by the holy imams With the peace and blessings Of Allah be upon them all And indeed we find this as well In the book محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم In which we look at the debates Of إمام علي ابن موسى أربع عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم This principle We're now going to apply it To the worldview Of Alex Rosenberg And the first question We want to ask is Is this worldview Liveable So let's look At this set Of principles again Is there a God now That's fine We'll keep that belief to the side For now Even though it means That we are incapable Of explaining Where Life And existence itself Came from But that's just Something we're going to keep to the side Because it has nothing to do With our livability Right now What is the nature of reality Whatever physics says it is So is that a livable way Of approaching the world Doesn't make sense of When Someone gets home When they want to have A conversation with others We talk about things In a purely physical manner And we would describe Everything we do Purely from the perspective of physics Purely from the perspective of What the physical properties Of things are Does that seem to be a very Livable way of living life I think we all know the answer to that What is the purpose of the universe Again we don't expect much more In an atheist worldview None What is the meaning of life Again nothing Why am I here just dumb luck Why does prayer work No Is there a soul Is it immortal Again obviously upon atheism You're not going to find much Of an answer to that Because a materialistic worldview Is not going to have room For an immaterial object Like a soul But this is the interesting one Is there free will Not a chance Okay Is that livable Is that a very livable belief When I go out On a day to day basis And someone irritates me Someone commits a crime Against humanity And I look at that On the TV screen And I see that look I'm grotesquely offended By this crime Which has been committed Especially if that crime Is committed against someone Like myself I'm going to be even more offended Now that's not necessarily The right way to look at things But we as human beings Can be very self-centered If I adopt that belief That there's no such thing As free will Then look at the ramifications And consequences of this belief I'm going to start believing That criminals Should not be prosecuted Nor should they be punished In a legitimate penal system Because at the end of the day These poor guys Were not in control of their actions Rather, they were predestined To do everything that they did They had absolutely zero choice in it It's a bit like me Programming and firing up a computer Getting that computer To do a task And then complaining That the computer did something Which it was programmed to do If it has no free agency Then I can't blame it And again If we have no free will Then we should not blame Criminals For acting in the way they do We should not reprimand Anyone for anything Let's look at every single Dimension of life That we can apply This not having free will We all know that in universities There are consequences For things like plagiarism There are consequences For acting unethically In the area of sports There are consequences For acting unethically In pretty much every single Field of the workforce Of today's world's population Can you imagine What would happen if every time A person would be chastised Penalised And dismissed from their job For acting in ethically Or unethically We would be forced To say that No, actually this poor individual Has not acted against the ethics Of the company Due to free will But rather They were chemically predispositioned And physically predispositioned To act in the very way they did You should not reprimand them For in the same way You do not choose what you do These poor individuals Have also not made that choice This is one of the consequences Of saying that There is no such thing as free will And more importantly If there is no such thing as free will Then we do hope that those Militant atheists To go around attacking everybody For what they believe in Would likewise take heed that Look at the end of the day According to your worldview We do not really choose To believe in the things That we believe in Rather according to your worldview I was chemically predispositioned To enter into Islam And believe in Islam And you were chemically predispositioned To remain an atheist This is the consequence of denying That we have a free will It would lead to Mass destruction On a societal level There would be no such thing as Courses of rehabilitation Because at the end of the day You would not be able to Rehabilitate someone That has absolutely zero Intentionality Or free human agency In the very thing that they do And we can see why This leads to a level Of what we could call cosmic despair Because if you have Absolutely zero choice In what you do If you are merely The physical composition Of a bunch of atoms and bosons Floating around in space Nothing of your life Is truly meaningful All the relationships you have Are merely the physical Compounds in your brain Causing you to act In a certain way Everyone that finds Who dear to them Is only doing so Because they have been Chemically predispositioned To do so Then what does that leave Life as being And again What it would leave it as Is exactly what Alex Rosenberg describes it as What is the nature of reality Whatever physics says it is And that is The consequence That is indeed the result Of this modern day Which promotes us As being Nothing more than Robots When we talk Of movies like iRobots Or other movies Which contain Futureistic concepts Such as Robots who are Just programmed to do What they do And unfortunately An evil guy takes over And somehow manages To change their programming And they do something But at the end of the day They don't have agency And they shouldn't really Be punished for such They just get destroyed When you put forward The view that a human being Is nothing more than An organic robot What kind of Concept is that Going to have for How you would treat Other human beings How are we going to think Of other human beings If that's all that they are Nothing more than Organic robots Organic units Without the natural Artificial intelligence Even to Make their own choices We're going to start treating them As if they're a cattle We're going to start treating Them worse than cattle Because at least cattle We believe Have a degree of free will But This argument promotes The thought That we as human beings Don't even have that agency In order to carry out Our lives In the way that we do This is one of the Consequences Of this worldview And we see That it's not very Liveable Again What is the difference Between right and wrong Good and bad There is no moral difference Between them So what does that mean What does it mean to say That there's no moral difference Between right and wrong Good and bad What would be a consequence of that Well Firstly we've already seen That obviously If someone's Chemically predisposed To do what they're meant to do We can't really blame Them for that anyway But If we can't now say That an action An action Independent of the actor And whether or not The actor has a choice If we can't say That an action Is good or bad What's that going to lead us to That's going to mean That of course Someone's choice Of what their favorite Soft drink beverage is Is exactly the same As their choice of Favorite Crime And Horrible act To commit As a means of Taking someone's life If My choice in regards to Morality is no more different Than my choice of For example Breakfast cereal Then what kind of World view is this going to be How liveable is it Really going to be Can you imagine that Your son comes home And he unfortunately is someone That carries out all these crimes A decent person A decent person Is going to Call the authorities And report their son For doing such Very going to inform the authorities That look Yes, it's my son But he's doing all these things And for the greater good of society This is really wrong I'm going to stand against him But if you believe That there's no such thing Is right or wrong What's that going to do To your image Of how we ought to treat society And so We need to ask Have people really considered The effects of Disbelieving in the concept of God Have people really considered What it does To your Rational concepts To your rational faculties And if you really believe this If you really believe There is no free will And that there's no such thing As right or wrong Are you in a liveable position To start condemning others For what they believe in Or how they act These are all Necessary points Which I don't think Many of the new atheists Have considered For indeed I don't think they've considered The fact that their belief In the absence of a God Is not merely the absence Of a belief But rather an entire World view itself But these are all questions That I believe We need to ask We need to ask When looking towards Which world views are Sustainable Serious candidates For the table Of different ideas And this is something Which of course We shall Drove into further But right now As we can see Atheism doesn't seem To be making the cut Dear viewers Thank you for joining me Once more on This your show Back to the basics And insha'Allah To Allah We pray That you will join us Tomorrow In which we continue Analyze In the world view Of atheism Please don't forget Us in your duas And we will likewise Not forget you 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