Let's see what atheists will say, What if you found a watch in the sand?
By Gordano
@Gordano (795)
United States
October 16, 2009 11:57am CST
another discussion in mylot inspired me to organize this one, I have read this beautiful article in an Islamic website, instead of making a response to the discussion I decided to start this one, Let's see what atheists here will actually say.
What if you found a watch in the sand?
Suppose you found a watch in the middle of the desert. What would you conclude? Would you think someone dropped the watch? Or would you suppose that the watch came by itself? Of course, no sane person would say the watch just happened to emerge from the sand.
All the intricate working parts could not simply develop from the metals that lay buried in the earth. The watch must have a manufacturer. If a watch tells an accurate time, we expect the manufacturer must be intelligent. Blind chance cannot produce a working watch. But what else tells accurate time? Consider the sunrise and the sunset.
Their timings are so strictly regulated that scientists can publish in advance the sunrise and sunset times in your daily newspaper, but who regulated the timings of sunrise and sunset? If a watch cannot work without an intelligent maker, how can the sun appear to rise and set with such clockwork regularity? Could this occur by itself? Consider also that we benefit from the sun only because it remains at a safe distance from the earth.
A distance that averages 93 million miles. If it gets much closer, the earth would burn up. And if it got too far away, the earth would turn into an icy planet making human life here impossible. Who decided in advance that this was the right distance? Could it just happen by chance? Without the sun, plants would not grow. Then animals and humans would starve. Did the sun just decide to be there for us? We need to experience sunrise.
We need the sun energy and its light to see our way during the day. But we also need sunset. We need a break for the heat, we need the cool of the night and we need the lights to go out so we may sleep. Who regulated this process to provide what we need?
Moreover, if we had only the warmth of the sun and the protection of the atmosphere we would want something more-beauty. Our clothes provide warmth and protection, yet we design them also to look beautiful/knowing our need for beauty, the designer of the sunrise and the sunset also made the view of them to be simply breathtaking.
The Creator who gave us light, energy, protection and beauty deserves our thanks. Yet some people insist that He does not exist. What would they think if they found a watch in the desert? An accurate and working watch? A beautiful designed watch? Would they not conclude that there is a watchmaker? One who appreciates beauty? Such is God who made us.
Let's see What atheists will say.....
source:
http://islam.thetruecall.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=123
Best Regards!
6 responses
@rameshkumaar57 (5908)
• India
16 Oct 09
I am not an atheist, but what are you trying to say?.
Just finding a watch in the desert does not mean that God has created the watch and put in the middle of the desert.
The atheists will have an answer for this, somebody dropped their watch when they were flying in an aircraft and it fell in the middle of the desert.
The atheists will have an answer for any thing you mention. So my advice, is let the atheists have their own opinion. It is for you to accept it or reject it.
@murderistic (2278)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I think the point is that we can naturally distinguish things that are created. We shouldn't deny this natural ability because of science.
@MrNiceGuy (4139)
• United States
12 Jan 10
Watches are mechanical and thus obviously cannot evolve. If you understand evolution whatsoever you understand how ridiculous this analogy is.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
20 Oct 09
I am not an atheist but a firm believer in monotheist Hinduism. I hope you know that original Hinduism in its pristine form hails the Creator as omnipresent, formless and the ultimate truth and source of energy, the only one who is both the creator and destroyer of everything on this universe…similar to the concept of Allah in Islam. I see that energy vibrating all around me in all life forms. Science, I believe, can never unravel this mystery coz it cannot be unraveled…it’s a truth that is there for anybody and everybody who seeks it. Its pure knowledge and acceptance of the divine force.
@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
17 Oct 09
I am not an atheist but the little story in your post only implies that the watch must have a maker, nothing nothing more, nothing less. But as to who the maker is can not be known except presumably, he must be an intelligent being. Who is the maker? Can you know just by standing on the sand and look at the watch? Can you accept if someone comes to you and give you a book saying follow this because this came fron the maker? After a short while, another one comes along that his own book is the true book for it was handed down by the maker? There may be some rational or logical arguments for the existence of God but they are not absolute proofs let alone explain who God is. Is it the God of this religion, that religion, or any other religion. The Bible says God created man according to His image but man, unfortunately man created gods according to his own image.
good thinking though.
enjoy life.
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
16 Oct 09
I totally agree! A watch was made by someone. And the one that made all things is God. One is free to believe what they want. But in the end they will realize that there is a God and that we are accountable on how we live our lives.
@Frederick42 (2043)
• Canada
17 Oct 09
Good discussion.
First of all, a watch cannot be compared to the sun or moon or anything else in the universe because the universe is bubbling with life whereas your watch has no life.
Secondly, you can see or talk to people who manufacture watches. You can literally see the watches being manufactured. As for the person who created the sun and moon, neither you nor me nor anybody else saw this person, so nothing wrong in denying his existence. I am sure you were not watching when the sun or moon was created.
Agreed that the universe has great intelligence. But to come to the conclusion that such an intelligence universe has a creator is only a conclusion because then one would also have to conclude that the creator also needs a creator and that creator yet another creator and so on. It will not end.
To say that God's nature is self-existent is also an error because you know nothing of God. Have you seen or spoken to God? If you compare a watch to this universe, then we should also compare God with a wacth-maker. Well, since we can see and speak to watch-makers, it should also have been possible to see and speak God. Since it is not possible to do so, we are left with the option to believe or deny the existnce of God. Nothing wrong in either option.






