In the following Video, an Islamic preacher is making a statement that – Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence for God.
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He says - "there are three kinds of existences – impossible, contingent and necessary. We humans are contingent as we depend on many others. This chain of contingent existences would go in infinite regress if God is not accepted as the necessary existence. Cause and effect may also goes in infinite regress. But Contingent existence is different from that."
The other person correctly says that this argument based on
necessary existence contradicts the law of cause and effect. Both arguments
based on necessary existence and cause-effect suffers from the fallacy of
infinite regress. Actually, both the arguments are essentially the same, as the necessary existence is nothing but the first cause!
The Islamic scholar is only talking about different types of existences, but is unable to define what existence is. The other person is not denying his existence but is very clear that existence is undefinable. He should have said that pure existence is nothing but Brahman or Consciousness, though unknowable, always remains as the root of all existences including God as the necessary existence!
But in spite of all the above arguments, Abrahamic religions, that posits an extra-terrestrial cause-less God, is essentially belief based as they don't have sound philosophy. The argument for God, based on necessary existence, has logical fallacy as God who is independent cannot have any dependents. That is why their God is dependent on the prophets and their book to prove his existence and has no power to independently incarnate and reveal himself to establish religion.
That is not the case with Vedic Hindu view point.
Why because, God in Hindu Vedic view is the essential spirit Self that exists in all and is verily of the nature of existence, consciousness and bliss - SatchidAnanda. Though He is immutable, He manifests as this very universe with His mysterious energy of mAya and also incarnates as needed to reveal himself and establish religion or dharma. All kinds of infinite regresses get eliminated when this Vedic God Brahman who is everywhere is realized. That is why Vedas declare, when one thing (Brahman/Self) is known, everything is known / attained. In the light of this absolute Brahman, abrahamic god is only an imaginary entity.
This supreme Absolute God, as the inner Self of all, always remains as the source/abode/destination of all existences of name/forms. Though body could be taken as the evidence for the Self/God, the Self is actually its own evidence as it can exist by itself. The entire universe is identified as the body of God and dependence of all living beings on the universe for their existence cannot be denied by any embodied being and is very much experiential. The scripture of Veda, which is essentially of the nature of sound or Shabda has its origin/abode/destination in God established as the inner Self of all and manifesting as this very universe.
God as Truth or existence is essentially unknowable. But is also knowable as the source/abode/destination of all worldly existences or name/forms.
The Vedic scripture alone is valid, eternal or Sanatana as it is rooted in the timeless, absolutely real Self or God. The contingency existences of rishis, the Vedic scripture and the way of life of dharma transmitted and practiced through the endless line of teacher-student relationship is also not denied as everything derives its existence from the God/Self/Brahman indwelling in all. All other scriptures have defects as they are human created and limited by space and time.
Dharma is that which sustains all. Hindu God, in the form
of the Universe, is thus an embodiment of dharma. Every living being, let alone
humans, are absolutely dependent on this Hindu God for their existence. But still, ignorant people are postulating some
imaginary god based on their blind belief, rooted in their own human created books and
faulty logic.
According to Vedic Hindu View, God is the essential non-dual Self or Atman, that exists in all and remains as the source/abode/destination of all other worldly existences. Islamists copied this Hindu God of Atman and incorrectly pronounced it as Allah and ignorantly and childishly trying to prove that their God alone is true and Hindu God is false!
It is impossible to falsify the eternal Hindu God of Atman or the Self that shines in all. Hindu God as Brahman or the Self is self-evident and does not need anything else to prove his existence and the body/mind/intellect derives its existence from this self-existing and indwelling Hindu God.
All other world views including Abrahamic views are at best,
could only be a footnote and approximation to this unknowable, unthinkable,
undeniable Hindu God of Atman/Brahman who is of the nature if pure Existence, Consciousness
and Bliss.
Namaste
Suresh
