The Empirical Approach and Belief in God (physics as an example)

Mohammad Aal-Ali

Summary
Noticeably the empirical approach that endorses the notion of atheism is epistemologically not concerned at all with discussing or opposing the rational, philosophical, and natural proofs adopted by the different rational and philosophical approaches, since the circle of accepting experiment as a valid argument is circumscribed by the tangibles. Hence, they may prove a law related to a tangible thing, but they can neither prove nor disprove anything that is outside the frame of tangibility. As a result of this natural inability of experiment, empirical physicists tried to surpass their tangible frame and discuss, or oppose, these rational and philosophical principles in order to controvert them and then refute them by use of their empirical method of explaining the origin of the world. By so doing, they tried to substitute the idea of the existence of a creator with the idea of the universe’s anomalous (or spontaneous) generation.

Briefly, their theory is based on these two factors:
1. Refutation of the rational and philosophical principles on which the proofs of monotheism are based.
2. Natural interpretation of the method of the generation and rise of the world.

The methodology of this essay is based on the following:
1. Revealing the most important intellectual principles and cornerstones in the words of the skeptic empiricists who doubt the principles and cornerstones of monotheism. The writer of the essay thus poses examples from the available books, essays, and writings of such empiricists.
2. Analyzing these principles and then weighing them up on the scale of good sense. In fact, the majority of such principles do not need more than necessarily true judgments.
3. An explanation of the most important terms used by the empiricists, since some of these terms might be reasons for falling into mistakes.

Concerning the second factor (i.e. natural interpretation of the method of the generation and rise of the world), it is in fact one of the experimental and tangible issues that no one has the right to object to except through a purely experimental and tangible discussion. No matter what the result is for them, this idea does not seem to be opposing the notion of the existence of God if the acceptability and authoritativeness of the rational proofs are taken into consideration. This point will be proven in the essay under discussion.

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