Divine Planning

~ 34 ~ wrongly of course, at producing atheism out of science, while few academic efforts worth mentioning have been made on the part of religious thinkers. One of these books, The Mysterious Universe, by Sir James Jeans, is notable for the impact it has had on both religious and scientific thinking: In this book the author has ably demolished through purely scientific arguments, the principle of causation as the acceptance of the mechanical substitute for God. In the latter half of the present century innumerable new facts have come to the knowledge of man, which prove the truth of religious beliefs on an extremely elevated plane. But so far no religious thinker has come forward to harness, this scientific information in support of religious truths. If this work could be performed at a high intellectual level, it would amount to an academic miracle in support of the religion of monotheism. As we learn from the Qur’an, the prophethood of all the prophets of the past was doubted by their contemporaries (11:62). Initially, the same fate befell the Prophet Muhammad, (38:10).