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Science Confirms Religious Truths

English book, p. 75

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

UNIVERSAL EVIDENCE OF GOD AND THE HEREAFTER rate of expansion of the universe had been established with exceeding accuracy and precision because this rate of expansion was very close to the critical rate needed to prevent the universe from collapsing. This means that if the model of the Big Bang is correct and it is from this that time has begun, the universe’s initial conditions must have been selected with exceeding care. Had this not been the case, the universe would have ended by now. This phenomenon cannot be explained without accepting that the universe’s expansion rate had been selected with exceeding care beforehand. Relating such details, Hawking, who is said to have been an atheist, writes: “It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.” The amazing quality of the universe is that it does not accept any interpretation other than a Divine one. The universe is a known phenomenon. It is not possible to deny its existence. This is why some of the best minds have sought its explanation and interpretation at every age. Some have claimed that the universe has always existed and is eternal. Some opined that it came about independently and is running by itself. Others have argued that a chain of cause and effect has given everything in the universe existence. However, others have tried to prove the principle of evolution to be the creator of the universe. And so on. However, reality negates, rebuts, and rejects all these explanations. The more knowledge man obtains about the system of the universe, the more hollow the claim appears to be that the cause of

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