Or even better why doesnt he just show himself to us?? Im really struggling with my religion at the moment and it probably hasnt helped watching all those atheist youtube clips challenging my faith!

But I really can not understand why god doesnt just prove himself to me like he did to the rest of the prophets? Is it not unfair that the prophets got 1st hand evidence which I will not get and the prophets only believed in god once they did receive this special evidence (e.g. moses and muhammed who werent believers until they received the word of god)?

God is fair, He gave us thoughts and ability to distinguish right from wrong. If He just showed up Himself there's no point He tests us in this world.

Atheists can say anything to deny God's existence, they only believe in materialism but ironically their "minds" are neither material nor matter. But the truth is there, the beginning of universe has a cause. If you use your logic for every reaction there must be a cause and the cause is nothing but God. Who would have such power to create something out of nothing?

It's actually 18 Billion years (human) vs 13 billion years (another human).

There's no direct statement whatsoever in the Quran that said "The Age of this Universe so far is 18 billion years".

Yes brother you're right because we don't know which layer of heaven the angels ascend to.

A God can not be created, just as a man can not give birth to a child, or a son can not become older than his own mom. As simple as that, it's the nature of existence.

The reason why we think God has a creator because we are living in space and time, God is beyond time otherwise we wouldn't be here and there is no universe at all (think of Prof. Stephen Hawking's analogy on positive and negative energy, if the man with a shovel did not start digging there would be no hill and hole). The beginning of universe shows that He has always existed because He is the reason why we being here. We can not use our logic to comprehend the existence of God because all laws of physics itself did not exist before Big Bang.

Logical sense tells us that for every reaction there is a cause. The beginning of the universe must has a cause, a power that can create something out of nothing and make the entire universe started out as a singularity.

Prof. Stephen Hawking says that the total energy within our universe is 0, by adding up positive and negative energy. His idea shows that our universe began from nothing. This automatically invalidates other universe models such as "eternal inflation", "cyclic universe" and "cosmic egg".

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

If the above method is accurate, then the Quran is wrong.

Is this really what these verses are saying???? i doubt it.

Not at all, there are a few methods to measure the age of universe. One of those is to measure the oldest object in the universe, only if within our measurable distance. Don't forget the universe is so big unless you can guarantee our technology can reach the edge of universe.

Also, no religion has ever given a single clue regarding the age of universe except Quran. 18 billion years (Quran) vs 13 billion years (human), the answer calculated by Muslims in reference to Quran is still valid because it has a bigger value than our estimated one, unless the Quran told us <13 billion years then it obviously wrong. Anyone could have come up with a wild guess but Quran is the closest.

Peace, Nashrullah84.

Have you ever studied the concept of gender-based evolution and sexual reproduction? If you did, then you'd know that gender (e.g. male/female) doesn't prove the existence of a god at all. In fact, it actually verifies the idea of natural selection stemming from a single-celled organism. I don't know who told you that you can scientifically prove the existence of God, but this isn't accurate.

Thanks but i was actually expecting direct answers rather than something along the lines of "have you ever studied...?" or "why don't you go and read this and that...". frankly speaking, if you were referring to antagonistic co-evolution as the answer for sexual reproduction, then please read my post again - "how did two organisms of opposite gender foresee the common goal that will be achieved in the final stage". i can go and read up countless of journals and studies on evolution but can i find answers to my questions such as why are the shapes of penis and vagina matched together perfectly like "nut and bolt", or how did natural selection know about penile erection before a sexual intercourse can take place, not to mention physical attraction, things like that. these may sound stupid, but if you consider every aspect carefully, it's not stupid at all.

talking about the first single cell, i doubt it would divide into multiple cells before it even had a nucleus.

Organisms naturally develop factors and attributes according to their specified environments.

if there's a need to change according to selective pressures, there's an urge. if there's an urge, there's a purpose. you don't need penile erection if it wasn't for successful sperm transfer.

Concepts like "complexity" have been explained very thoroughly.

please refer to my previous post since all parts must be present in order to carry out functions so which part should evolution choose to evolve first?

However, to allege that science can somehow prove his/their existence is ridiculous.

my answer is pretty simple; it's either conscious or unconscious, there's nothing in between.

peace, too.

who said we can't scientifically prove God? isn't it gender alone enough to prove the existence of God? if humans are merely products of evolution, then how did the first opposite sex come into being? yeah, typical atheists may answer that we did not evolve into a complete system as we are now but rather through gradual modification and natural selection. then, how did a random process such as "natural selection" ensure that the development of a gender's sex organ is in compliance with its opposite sex, for example the penis and vagina? and most importantly, how did two organisms of opposite gender foresee the common goal that will be achieved in the final stage, which is to create a complete reproductive system where sperm transfer correlates with the genital shapes of both male and female?

Muslims do not simply assume and make a proclamation such as "we can't find the answer so it must be God". in fact, Allah gives us answers that can be proven by scientifically methods. otherwise, can the grand theory of evolution explains how did the first opposite sex come into being through a random process?

Quran 4913

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

another proof of God's existence is the complexity of biological systems. atheists always said a complex biological system can be reduced to its simpler forms and hence reducible complexity, which can be achieved by evolution. however, they failed to understand that an organism can not survive without a complete biological system. for example, human can not live with only brain without other organs being present or vice versa. let alone a simple animal like sea cucumber (or even a single cell), though it may not have a complex system like human but still it has a complete system to carry out essential functions. it can not have only locomotion system without a nervous system, nor a respiratory system without circulation system. since all parts must be present in order to carry out functions so which part should evolution choose to evolve first? if two parts can not emerge spontaneously by chance then how can it be reduced in complexity and expect it to function like normal?

so THINK!