The following video clip is an interesting example of a human design which gives rise to the old discussion of design argument for the existence of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9gs-5lRKc
If the link doesn't work search for "Magnets and Marbles" on you tube.
And here is a well written article which encapsulates the philosophical views for and against the design argument.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/design/
It is hard to imagine that the "Magnets and Marbles" system could be a product of randomness and pure chance, if we refrain to use the word "impossible". By the way of analogy, it seems reasonable to assume that the natural martial world ,even the apparently lifeless Eco-system all around us, to be more complicated than the Magnets and Marbles system, the main resemblance being the coordination of highly complex parts in serving a specific purpose.
The main contemporary argument against assuming an intelligent creator for the world ,as far as I heard, seems to be the hypothesis of evolution and "natural selection" at its core as explained in details on this page:
I tend to believe that "natural selection" would be mostly applicable to the live creatures of the world in which there is an intelligent identity that is trying to survive in the its living environment. To keep this post short, I will discuss the evolution theory as the origin of human being in a later post.
My point from referring you to the philosophical discussions around this subject is , as it is well demonstrated in the article, there seems to be a never ending discussion without reaching a definite conclusion like most of the other subjects in philosophy. In other words, philosophy which is derived from logic,fails to help us reach an absolute certainty probably in most cases. On the contrary, it appears that depending on our internal initial tendency we are capable of coming up with a logically sound argument for or against the discussed subject. As a matter of fact, in philosophy our mind can be trapped in a superficial fight between the valid forms and logical structures of reasoning without really creating much value in terms of providing us with a peace of mind and certainty.
Certainty and peace of mind ,I believe, comes only with the truth and truth can only be found by our heart. Yet, in no way I mean to neglect or under value our logical faculty which is the foundation of all human's knowledge built on empirical data collected by our five senses. That is to say, we need to compute the material aspect of the world by our logic, by our mind and then present their findings to our heart ,that is in touch with the non-material dimension of the world, to take a side or to choose from choices we are left with after rational processing. Our heart has its own findings too that doesn't come from our senses which are only in touch with the material world.
In a practical example, when we are to find a life partner, as much as it would be wrong to go with merely our gut feelings, it will be equally wrong to rely on a rational thought process to find the best match for the features we have listed in our mind. Perhaps, the best choice will be the one that marries the best of the two worlds. That is when our heart corroborates the findings of our mind. By the same token, never marry a belief unless your heart tells you to.
At the end, I would like to emphasis that no matter how solid our logic appears to be, it is always our heart that makes the final sense of the world. It is only our heart that is capable of seeing the truth and can help us get to the truth once all the available arguments/data are presented to it.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَدَّ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَجَعَلَ فِيہَا رَوَٲسِىَ وَأَنۡہَـٰرً۬اۖ وَمِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٲتِ جَعَلَ فِيہَا زَوۡجَيۡنِ ٱثۡنَيۡنِۖ يُغۡشِى ٱلَّيۡلَ ٱلنَّہَارَۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٲلِكَ لَأَيَـٰتٍ۬ لِّقَوۡمٍ۬ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
13-3 "And it is He Who spread out the earth, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every kind He made in pairs, two and two: He draweth the Night as a veil o'er the Day. Behold, verily in these things there are Signs for those who consider! "
هُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلشَّمۡسَ ضِيَآءً۬ وَٱلۡقَمَرَ نُورً۬ا وَقَدَّرَهُ ۥ مَنَازِلَ لِتَعۡلَمُواْ عَدَدَ ٱلسِّنِينَ وَٱلۡحِسَابَۚ مَا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ ذَٲلِكَ إِلَّا بِٱلۡحَقِّۚ يُفَصِّلُ ٱلۡأَيَـٰتِ لِقَوۡمٍ۬ يَعۡلَمُونَ
10-5 "It is He Who made the sun to be a shining glory and the moon to be a light (of beauty), and measured out stages for it: that ye might know the number of years and the count (of time). No wise did Allah create this but in truth and righteousness. (Thus) doth He explain His Signs in detail, for those who understand."
وَقَالُواْ مَا هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنۡيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحۡيَا وَمَا يُہۡلِكُنَآ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهۡرُۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٲلِكَ مِنۡ عِلۡمٍۖ إِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
45-24 "And they say: "There is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live and nothing destroys us except Ad-Dahr (time)[]. And they have no knowledge of it, they only conjecture. "
أَلَمۡ تَرَوۡاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُم مَّا فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٲتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَأَسۡبَغَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ نِعَمَهُ ۥ ظَـٰهِرَةً۬ وَبَاطِنَةً۬ۗ وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يُجَـٰدِلُ فِى ٱللَّهِ بِغَيۡرِ عِلۡمٍ۬ وَلَا هُدً۬ى وَلَا كِتَـٰبٍ۬ مُّنِيرٍ۬
31-20 "Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!"
صدق الله العلي العظيم
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