NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD
English book, PDF p. 173
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 173 ~ could get a map of the world by spilling a glass of water on the floor.”22 It may well be asked where the floor, the gravitational force of the earth, the water and the glass came from in order to bring about this ‘chance occurrence.’ Haeckel, a noted biologist, claimed, “Give me air, water, chemical elements and time and I will make a man.” This claim obviously implied that God was not necessary for such a feat. But by admitting the prior presence of the man – himself – and the material conditions essential for the success of his project, he unwittingly demonstrated the vacuity of such a notion. Dr. Morrison has rightly said: “While asserting this, Haeckel overlooked the problem of genes and life itself. To bring a man into existence, first of all he would have to obtain the invisible atoms. Then, after putting them in a specific order, he would have to construct a gene and import life to it. Even then, the probability of its chance creation is one in crores. But even supposing that he succeeded, he could not call it an ‘accident’. On the contrary, he

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