Search for Truth
Faith and Reason
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sense of being the cause for the whole series
of observable causes.
The Prime Mover or First Cause theory. Although
obviously very sound, it has constantly been
under attack from secular circles, and critics have
raised a variety of objections. To begin with, they
say that it is only guesswork, and not an
undeniable fact. Some critics also object that the
actions or free will of subatomic particles are
uncaused; so, why not also the world as a whole?
Moreover, even if all things in the world are
caused, this may not be true of the world itself,
because no one knows whether the whole is
sufficiently like its parts to warrant such a
generalization.
This is why some people think that the faith of
Islam is not based on rational grounds. They say
that Islamic belief can be proved only through
inferential argument and not through direct
argument. They assert that in Islam there is only
secondary rationalism and not primary rationalism.
But modern science has demolished this notion, as
will be shown in the last part of this chapter.
