History’s Intellectual Fallacies
English book, p. 253
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOD: VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE understood as waves. Notable scientists who contributed to this discovery include Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Pascual Jordan, and Paul Dirac. This scientific discovery scientifically refuted classical Newtonian mechanics. The river of knowledge now stretched from the macro world to the micro world, meaning that in addition to visible things, invisible things also became a valid subject of knowledge. This intellectual revolution took place in the first half of the 20th century. One of the important changes that resulted from these theoretical changes was that the principle of reason changed. Before this intellectual revolution, it was understood that a valid argument is a direct argument, that is, an argument based on observation and experience. But now, an inferential argument has also become equally valid. When subatomic particles, despite being unobservable, were accepted as a scientific fact solely based on the inferential argument, because their effect—heat—was observable, it necessarily meant that an argument for the existence of God based on the inferential argument is equally valid scientific argument. Theologians used to present an argument for the existence of God, which is called the ‘argument from design;’ that is, when there is a design in the universe all around us, there must be a Designer—the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. This inferential argument was initially considered secondary rationalism. But now, after the modern scientific revolution, this argument has also been included in the list

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