Another door to prove Divine Unity: Western man wants proof and evidence if he is to accept an idea. Thus, the Risale-i Nur sets forth all these matters as reasoned arguments; it puts forward a proposition, argues it with logical proofs, and comes to reasoned conclusions. An example of this is the following, which is part of a proof of Divine Unity:
“If all things are not all together attributed to the Pre-Eternal, All-Powerful One, the One Knowing of All Things, then, as well as having to gather together in a particular measure from most of the varieties of beings in the world the body of the tiniest thing like a fly, the particles which work in that tiny fly’s body will have to know the mysteries of the fly’s creation and its perfect art in all its minutes details. For as all the intelligent agree, natural causes and physical causes cannot create out of nothing. In which case, if they do create, they will gather [the being] together. And since they will gather it together, whatever animate being it is, there are within it samples of most of the elements and most of the varieties of beings, for living creatures are quite simply like a seed or essence of the universe, it will of course be necessary for them to gather together a seed from the whole tree and an animate being from the whole face of the earth sifting them through a fine sieve and measuring them with the most sensitive balance. And since natural causes are ignorant and lifeless, and have no knowledge with which to determine a plan, index, model, or program according to which they can smelt and pour the particles which enter the immaterial mold [of the being in question], so they do not disperse and spoil its order, it is clear how far it is from possibility and reason to suppose that, without mold or measure, they can make particles of the elements which flow like floods remain one on the other in the form of an orderly mass without dispersing for everything has a single form and measure amid possibilities without calculation or count….” The Flashes, 307
In addition to proving these truths according to logic and with reasoned arguments, the Risale-i Nur examines, ‘reads’, the universe looking at it through the eyes of science. Considered in the light of all the physical sciences it demonstrates it to be the creation of a Single Creator and the manifestation of His Most Beautiful Names. It shows that in describing some aspect of the universe’s functioning, each science makes known some aspect of the Creator. The source of each is one of the Divine Names; its development is the manifestation of that Name. Far from there being any contradiction, the sciences are a means to knowledge of God.