God and the Universe

FROM DENIAL TO BELIEF IN GOD tasting the mixture, you can discern the presence of sugar in the water. In the same way, our eyes cannot see God, but when we study the world around us, our intuition calls out that undoubtedly there is a God present here, for without Him, the universe could not have come into being, and it could not possess any of its many unique features. The growth of scientific knowledge of the universe has not distanced man from God, as atheists might aver and hope. Instead, it has potentially brought man closer to God. This being the case, doubting God’s existence is only a declaration of ignorance. Newton was true when he remarked, “A smattering of knowledge turns people away from God–but much of it brings them back to Him.” PREDICTABLE UNIVERSE In 1964, I wrote a book in Urdu titled Mazhab aur Jadeed Challenge (which has been translated into English as God Arises). This book shows that the universe is very meaningful. Such a meaningful universe cannot have been made without a Maker. One of the points the book makes is that on the 11th of August 1999, a solar eclipse would be completely visible in Cornwall. I had written this around thirty-five years before this event. Thirty-five years after I wrote this, the date arrived. By this advance announcement, at the exact appointed time, a solar eclipse did indeed occur. There was not a minute difference in the occurrence of this event.