Arguments of Opponents of Religion

bit of flesh, emerges from it? In ancient times, many people might have said: “God does it like this.” In modern times, through observation through a microscope, it has come to be known that when a period of 21 days is about to get over, a small, hard horn appears on the chick’s beak. With the help of this horn, the chick breaks its shell and emerges. The horn, completing its work, automatically falls off a few days after the chick’s birth. According to the worldview of the opponents of religion, this phenomenon proves that the ancient belief that the cause of the chick’s emergence from the egg is God is wrong because the ‘eye’ of the microscope very clearly shows us that there is a 21-day law that causes a horn to appear on the chick’s beak, which the chick uses to break its shell and emerge out of the egg. But this argument is nothing but a misunderstanding. All that modern scientific observation has shown us in this regard is one additional step of the phenomenon of the chick’s emergence from its shell. It has not told us the actual or ultimate cause of the phenomenon. Following the observation of the horn that emerges on the chick’s beak, which the chick uses to crack the shell of the egg, the difference that has come about in the situation is nothing more than this: earlier, the question was about how the cover of the egg breaks, and now the issue was extended to ask how the horn-like feature emerged on the chick’s beak! The chick using its ‘horn’ is only an intermediate step of the phenomenon of the chick coming out of the shell of the egg; it is not the ultimate cause of the phenomenon. The ultimate cause of the phenomenon will come to be known