The odd angle

The Context Recently I watched a debate on the topic whether god exists or not between Javed Akhtar and Mufti Samail Nadvi. The debate was supposed to be academic however the subject was limited to logic and meta-physical level. Nadvi pointed out three standards out of the situation while discussing the issue (1) Science; as it dealt with empirical domain and god is supernatural hence beyond the senses, (2) Revelation; in the sense that scriptures mention existence of such entity and must be believed, (3) Observation; it builds on the same argument that you can’t show god as its beyond the grasp of our senses e.g. you can not detect plastic with metal detector.  Hence he sets out logic as standard to prove or disprove the existence of god, however he limits it to a definitive argument . Nadvi begins with the question on creation i.e. who created this world and mentions its natural to look for an outside agent for such creation which he accounted to the supernatural. He anticipated...