GORAP — The Basic Dawah Conversation · A Guided Case for God

6 — Whatever begins has a cause

Handle with care. Do not say the Big Bang theory proves God or every cosmologist accepts an absolute beginning.

In short

1.The premise is not ‘everything has a cause’.
2.Nothing has no powers.
3.Self-creation is contradictory.
4.A beginning points beyond what began.

The claim being examined

Something cannot bring itself from non-being into being, and absolute nothing has no power to produce anything.

The Islamic position

The Qur'an asks whether people were created by nothing, created themselves, or whether the Creator made the heavens and earth.

Analysis

The argument is valid in form: if whatever begins has a cause and the universe began, the universe has a cause. Its second premise remains debated. The standard model describes an early hot, dense state; it does not settle every ultimate-origin model. Borde–Guth–Vilenkin establishes past incompleteness under specified expansion conditions, not an unrestricted proof of creation from nothing.

From the Qur'an

أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ الْخَالِقُونَ ۝ أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ

Am khuliqu min ghayri shay'in am humu al-khaliqun? Am khalaqu al-samawati wal-ard?

Or were they created by nothing, or were they their own creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth?

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