CHAPTER SIX — Modern Possibilities

is extraordinarily important, it represents only 0.02% (i.e. two in ten thousand) of the metals found on earth. Other metals like chromium and nickel are very similar to molybdenum in their properties and likewise make up 0.02% of the metals found on earth, yet they have no importance in the biological system. According to Crick and Orgel, the chemical formation of the earth should have been reflected in the life-forms taking shape on earth, but since this is patently not so, they suppose that life was sent to the earth by some more advanced civilization from outer space. This study has offered a new scientific base for the panspermia concept of the Swedish chemist, Arrhenius. Innumerable discoveries of a similar nature in modern times have brought science (or modern thought) very close to religion. These discoveries have done 99% of the tasks, now there remains only 1%. Such discoveries have been made today in all branches of knowledge as provide astonishing proof of the veracity of Islamic beliefs. They are such as to have thoroughly shaken the human mind. The ancient Arab opponents of the Islamic creed of monotheism so tortured the believers that they could not even sit straight. They even forced them to say, “Lat and Uzza are gods besides God!” Today the progress of knowledge has itself proved the baselessness of such a concept. Modern science finds it meaningless to admit of many gods in the universe. There is simply no room for polytheism in scientific realms. To those with unbiased minds and a thorough knowledge of our times, religion can be proved right on such an elevated plane that all contemporary thought systems would appear dwarfish in comparison. 1. The most important scientific discovery of modern times from the Islamic point of view is that of methodology. Up to the beginning of the 20th century, for an argument to be considered valid, it was thought necessary to have the same kind of link between a claim and the thing about which that claim was being made as exists between an electric lamp and its switch. That is to say, for a theory to