NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 110
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 110 ~ in progress, it is evident that our universe could not have existed from eternity, else it would have long since run out of useful energy and ground to a halt. Therefore, quite unintentionally, science proves that our universe had a beginning. And in doing so it proves the reality of God, for whatever had a beginning did not begin of itself but demands a Prime Mover, a Creator, a God.3 James Jeans has expressed the same view thus: The more orthodox scientific view is that the entropy of the universe must forever increase to its final maximum value. It has not yet reached this; we should not be thinking about it if it had. It is still increasing rapidly, and so must have had a beginning; and there must have been what we may describe as a ‘creation’ at a time not infinitely remote.4 There is much physical evidence of this type to prove that the universe has not always existed. On the contrary, its life span is limited. According to astronomy, the universe

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