THE WORLD HEREAFTER — Perfect and Eternal

THE WORLD HEREAFTER Perfect and Eternal S IR James Jeans once observed that the Creator of the universe must have possessed a mathematical mind. Here, I must add that the very meaningfulness of the universe is proof that its Creator must have had a deep sense of purpose. Such a purposeful Creator could not have created a world, which was imperfect—and therefore meaningless—if this objective was to be fulfilled. Yet despite all its meaningfulness, our world in its present state is incomplete. It requires the existence of another world for its completion. It is such a world that all the prophets have called the world of the Hereafter. This world of the Hereafter is not just a matter of dogma. It is an entirely scientific fact. Scientific Proof First of all, we must define what is scientific proof? According to modern science, scientific proof does not mean that there can be any degree of absolute certainty about whatever is to be proved. This kind of undeniable certainty is not possible. The very meaningfulness of the universe is proof that its Creator must have had a deep sense of purpose. According to the modern scientific stand, when we say that something has been scientifically proven, this statement only means that its probability has been established. In modern science, concepts that are presented as established facts are generally accepted only because their probability has been established, not because there is any definite knowledge of them acquired as a result of observing them. An example of this is the acceptance of the structure of the atom. We can, with confidence, apply the same scientific method to our belief in the world of the Hereafter. Indeed, employing any other method would not, in principle, be appropriate. And, from the scientific viewpoint, we cannot refuse to apply it to the case of the world Hereafter—a method that we hold valid in most scientific matters. As we know, the steps to a scientific inquiry include —hypothesis, observation and verification.