ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOD AND RELIGION — Part I From Physical Sciences

machine? If the answer to this is ‘No’, then how do a few glances at the mechanism of the universe prove that this entire system came into existence unaided and of its own accord, and is continuing to function independently? Criticizing Darwinism, A. Harris made a similar remark: ‘Natural Selection may explain the survival of the fittest but cannot explain the arrival of the fittest'. Many scientists of the present age have agreed upon the theory of evolution. This concept is becoming dominant in all scientific fields. An enchanting idol of spontaneous evolution has been set up in place of God. If the truth were told, the very dogma of organic evolution, from which all of the evolutionary concepts have been borrowed, is nothing but a hypothesis without any evidence. But this is not all. Some scientists have openly confessed that if they believe in the concept of evolution, it is simply because they can find no other alternative. Those who believe in a universe without a Creator are not ready to believe in a Creator without a Creator. Unable to find an explanation for the similarities and disparities amongst species in nature, evolution or ‘common descent’ is professed as the answer. Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) said in 1953 that evolution was unproved and unprovable and that we believed in it only because the only alternative was special creation and that was unthinkable. Scientists are thus agreed upon the validity of the evolution theory simply because, if they discard it, they will be left with no option but to believe in the concept of God. ‘Intelligent design’ explains these similarities and disparities amongst species in nature as one of ‘common design’ where the same materials (genes) have been used to construct species but employed in such a way, as to generate radically different kinds of creatures. Cressy Morrison asks with reason in his book, Man Does not Stand Alone, ‘How much must man advance before he fully realizes the existence of a Supreme Intelligence, grasps His goodness that we exist, assumes his full part in destiny and strives to live up to the highest code he is capable of understanding without attempting to analyse God’s motive, or describe His attributes?’ In the matter of theology the modern mind is in grave confusion. Atheist philosophers have frequently asked, “If God has created the