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NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 142 ~ perpetual darkness at the North and South Poles, the oceanic vapours would have travelled northwards and the earth’s surface would have been covered in either glaciers or deserts—to describe but a few of the adverse effects. This would have rendered the survival of life on earth impossible. One can go on endlessly imagining different sets of physical circumstances which could have precluded or destroyed human existence. It is unthinkable then, that, the perfect conditions for man to come into existence on earth were simply self-generating and had no origin in divine inspiration. If we think of what conditions were like at the time of the formation of the earth, it seems all the more miraculous that life could come into being at all. Isaac Asimov has painted a fearsome picture of the beginning of things. Correcting the earlier hypothesis in favour, at the beginning of this century, he writes: Currently, scientists are convinced the earth and the other planets did not form from the sun, but were formed of particles coming

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