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The Issue of Mindset

English book, p. 63

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Issue of Mindset the solar system, including the revolution of the sun, the moon and the planets. He sought to explain these astronomical phenomena through the principles of Mathematics. He pointed out how the movement of these bodies was linked to the Law of Gravity. In ancient times, it was believed that the movements of the sun and the moon and all other phenomena had supernatural causes. At that time, human beings were unaware that these developments could also be explained using materialistic terminology relating to the Law of Nature. Newton’s research shook the very foundations of this belief. Further research discovered that all developments on the Earth and in the skies were an expression of such laws of Nature as can be described in the language of Mathematics; the pillars of traditional faith systems were shaken. Modern thinkers declared that if events are due to natural causes; they are not due to supernatural causes. After Newton, a new group of thinkers emerged who played a crucial role in changing people’s thinking. Charles Darwin (1802-1882) represented this new group. Newton had seen the physical world as moving according to the laws of Nature. Darwin went further and declared that the biological world, too, moved

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