English book · Discovering the Quran

Scientific Principles for God’s Existence

English book, p. 27

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Scientific Principles for God’s Existence The Quran is not a book of science. But the Quran makes many references to the phenomena of nature, which are the subject of scientific investigation. The purpose of the Quran in referring to the signs existing in nature is for people to study branches of human knowledge which have discovered in detail about these phenomena. Many fragmentary references to the phenomena of nature are found in the Quran. Man did not know anything about these natural phenomena in ancient times. The mention of these references in the Quran became a means of informing and enlightening the human generations of the future to increase their knowledge by undertaking studies in this direction. In this way, it would become possible for a person to enhance his understanding of the universe and the natural world, thereby being in a position to deeply appreciate the Creator who has fashioned the world in His exceptional intelligence. Scientific Principles for God’s Existence People are generally in confusion about Einstein. Some think that he was an atheist, while others believe he was not. Study of Einstein’s various statements reveal that Einstein was not a denier of God, rather he was a skeptic, or a person who is not sure about God’s existence. I will cite here a report from The Times of India about Einstein’s view on God: In 1997, Skeptic, a hard unbelief science magazine, published for the first time a series of letters Einstein exchanged in 1945 with a junior officer in the US navy named Guy Raner on the same topic. Raner wanted to know if it was true that Einstein converted from atheism to theism when

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