Fundamental Inquiries in the Face of Anti-Religious Sentiment: A Critique of Atheistic Foundations

Whoever contemplates the reality of contemporary atheism realizes from the outset that there is no true atheism built upon solid epistemological foundations; rather, it is in its essence an enmity toward religion, using doubts as a veil for personal issues, psychological circumstances, or blind imitation of the West. As Imam al-Shahrastani established long ago, the Arabs did not know atheism as an intellectual system, but rather as pure denial and hostility.

From here, we invite every skeptic to seek the truth for themselves and not to outsource their intellect to others. We pose these fundamental questions that materialism fails to answer:

First: The Dilemma of Morality in a Material World

In the atheistic perspective, man is nothing more than a collection of deterministic physical interactions. Does morality belong to the world of deterministic physics? The laws that govern you are the same that govern a stone in a neutral universe; so what is the meaning of your statement 'this ought not to happen'? The existence of a moral objection implies the existence of an error that violates a moral standard—so who established this standard in a silent, material world?

Second: The Reliability of Reason and Evolution

How can one trust a mind that evolved from the struggles of the jungle? Leading figures of contemporary atheism, such as Sam Harris, state in their works that 'free will is an illusion.' If the mind is merely a deterministic product of unconscious biological processes, how can it raise doubts or trust its own conclusions?

Third: The Reality of Evil in a Deterministic Nature

Is evil a mental construct or an objective reality? If it is merely a mental construct, from where did it leap into your mind in a material world? Richard Dawkins says: 'The universe is atheistically without good and without evil.' Conversely, C.S. Lewis—who renounced his atheism—argued that the existence of evil is evidence of the falsity of atheism; because the perception of evil necessitates the existence of a standard of good outside of matter. How then can the atheist object to the existence of earthquakes and calamities when he possesses no definition of evil within his own system?