NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 170
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 170 ~ development and progressive evolution, and that, unless the foundations of modern science are overthrown, they are unexplainable. We are faced by a hiatus in our knowledge. There is a gap between living and non-living matter which we have not been able to bridge (p. 36). The laws of chance cannot take into account or explain the fact that the properties of a cell are born out of the coordination of complexity and not out of the chaotic complexity of a mixture of gases. This transmissible, hereditary, continuous coordination entirely escapes our laws of chance. Rate fluctuations do not explain qualitative facts, they only enable us to conceive that they are not impossible qualitatively (p. 37). Such calculations show that at least 1400 million years have elapsed since the process of rocksolidification took place. These estimates are based on a study of those rocks which are known to be the oldest on our planet. J.W. Sullivan puts the earth’s

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