It has always been strikingly amazing to me how weak humans are, and yet they are leaders of that planet. We're physically very fragile, much weaker than many other creatures and can be overpowered to our death by microscopic creatures that we can't even see . Our senses are so deficient. There are frequencies we can't hear, light waves that we can't see, pressure that we can't feel. We are too tiny and yet we can't fully understand how our bodies that we live in everyday manages to run itself with breath-taking accuracy and coordination without us commanding it, let alone the limits of the universe we have been living in for millions of years.We only out do other creatures in the superiority of our brains. Creative, intelligent superior brains as they are, but still, like our senses and bodies have their narrow range compared to those of other creatures, our intelligence too must be limited. There must be things we can't possibly know, things we can't possibly understand their logic no matter how hard we try.
I don't think that you can induce an unbeliever to believe in God by a logical argument because I don't think that logic is where belief originates. It is not the brain where belief is initiated, it is the spirit. Anything that is proved only by logic without any materialistic evidence to support it can be counter argued by another logic. Logic and common sense are not the same to everybody and they vary according to how you've been brought up, your education, the way your brain reasons things, and most of all, according to what you are inclined to believe as common sense. I think that believing in God depends entirely on something inside each believer that says there is a God that we ought to be worshiping regardless of any logical conviction that points to the existence of a Creator. You know it in your heart, in your spirit. You seek Him. You're certain that He is here although you've never seen Him. Where does that feeling come from? As a Muslim I believe that in some time before our existence on Earth God has made us all testify that He is our Creator so that we are born with that innate quest of Him and a vague knowledge that He exists until that feeling is ascertained when we are taught about religion.
"إِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتَ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُواْ بَلَى شَهِدْنَا أَن تَقُولُواْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَذَا غَافِلِينَ." الأعراف 172
To an atheist, that story doesn't make sense and I can't logically argue him into believing in it, because to believe in such a story you have to first believe that there is a God. An atheist would say that it's human weakness and precariousness that created religion to face the feared unknown future and the daily sufferings of life. Fragile and of limited powers of sense as we are, the knowledge of the existence of God who watches over us, sees and hears everything, knows the future and knows what's best for you and would guide you through it is exactly what we need to be able to face life, and that's , atheists say, is how religion started.
Unless an atheist can give that feeling the same interpretation that a believer gives, I don't think there can be any logical argument that would induce him to believe. The spiritual world of religion would seem so shocking to his logic that accepts only scientifically proved facts and rules that he has experienced on Earth. It's only God who can take over a heart, and get it to look at things the way a believer does.
"إِنَّكَ لا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَن يَشَاء وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ" الزخرف 56
In my logic, I see that if the Earthly physical rules change and cease to apply by leaving this planet just to the outer space where a new set of rules would apply. If within our universe can exist two different worlds each with its own set of rules, then why can't another world as well exist too? If a human being floating in air is an absurd illogical idea on Earth but then humanity finds out that humans can float in space and then the idea wouldn't be absurd, Then who defines absurdity and logic? If logic changes based on what we know and if our ability to know is clearly deficient, then who decides?
I see that without God, there would be no right or wrong. Who says that stealing is wrong if you can get away with it without getting caught? If I don't go to jail if I lie and there is no God to judge me, then why wouldn't I? Who sets the moral rules? If there is no God to set these rules, no God to fear, why would I follow them? The fact that there is God is the only thing that makes the distinction between goodness and evil, and without Him it can never be, and it just wouldn't make sense.
That's the way I see religion. A spiritual belief first and before anything else, that broadens your logic into accepting logics of other worlds. Worlds accepted for the goodness, the peace, the harmony they bring and after all, for their sensible logic.
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