NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 150
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 150 ~ towns and villages, and destroyed their farms, making cultivation impossible. No device which the people discovered could stop its spread. Australia was in danger of being overwhelmed by a silent, uncontrollable, advancing army of vegetation. The entomologists scoured the world and finally found an insect which lived exclusively on cactus, would eat nothing else, would breed freely, and which had no enemies in Australia. Here the animal conquered the vegetation and today the cactus pest has retreated, and with it all but a small protective residue of the insects, enough to hold the cactus in check forever.11 Can such a great scheme of checks and balances, as is found in Nature, develop without any deliberate planning? Consider the marvellous mathematical exactitude which is to be found in the universe. The behaviour of even inanimate matter is not in any way haphazard: on the contrary, it “obeys” definite “natural laws”. No matter in which corner of the

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