The Universe ‘Speaks’ About God
English book, p. 131
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD efficiency and accuracy. ‘Mere chance’ does not explain why regularity and order are found in the universe. The process of ‘mere chance’ cannot operate uniformly. It is not possible that whatever happened today by ‘mere chance’ will also be brought about by ‘mere chance’ every day that follows. That being so, the fact that everything in the physical universe is characterized by fantastic precision, predictability, regularity, and uniformity—such as, for instance, the speed at which the Earth rotates around its axis or revolves around the Sun—cannot be the result of ‘mere chance.’ Then what accounts for these remarkable features of the physical universe? The only reasonable explanation is to attribute them to the Almighty Designer, Creator, Master, and Sustainer of the universe, God Almighty. If you take some bits of plastic shaped in the form of the letters of the alphabet and throw them up in the air, is it possible that by ‘mere chance,’ they will fall on the ground in the form of complete sentences and paragraphs? Obviously not! If such a small thing cannot happen by ‘mere chance,’ why is it posited that such a vast universe, with its unique features, came into being by ‘mere chance’? What evidence exists to accept intellectually a theory that cannot be proven in any laboratory? Another purported explanation of phenomena that atheists depend on is the laws of Nature. Why do chicks emerge from a hen’s egg in 21 days and an ostrich’s egg in 45 days? There are innumerable questions like these whose answer, according to atheists, is that these are simply a result of the laws of Nature. Ostensibly, this is an explanation, but in

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