THE AGE OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION—PART II

Modern science provides proof of the existence of God, at least potentially, if not actually. Whether man’s actions are predestined or he has freedom of choice, apparently man finds himself free in this world. But when God is allPowerful, it seems unthinkable that man could have total freedom. This objection is illogical. If God is the Possessor of all Power He surely possesses the power to set a limit on His Power at certain points. God might stop His power temporarily for some reason. This inference is apparently a theoretical one. But the discovery of black holes has confirmed this inference through demonstration. At an international conference of physicists, James Watson Cronin, a Nobel prize winning physicist, presented a paper in which he discussed how 96 per cent of our universe is composed of dark matter. Dark matter cannot be detected directly, because it does not emit radiation or reflect light. James Watson further said that we think we understand the universe, but we only understand four per cent of it. The Quran—Word of God The Quran is a preserved divine book. The very first verses of the Quran include these words: “There is no doubt in it” (2: 2). Which means that it is a Divine book and there is no doubt about it. The Quran declared that it was a book of guidance for all mankind and for all time. To support this claim, it was essential that the events of later times continued to testify to it. No such event should take place in later times as might refute this statement. This claim has astonishingly lived up to this standard. One example of the above claim is in the chapter 10 of the Quran which states that God drowned Ramasses II of Egypt in the 15th century BC, for he had denied Moses, the Prophet of God. At that time God said to him: “We shall save your body this day, so that you may serve as a sign for those who come after you” (10: 92). This verse of the Quran was revealed in the first quarter of the 7th century, referring to an event which took place two thousand years before that. There was no printing press, no communications, and no record in known history of Pharaoh’s body. People had even forgotten this event. No one knew at that time that the Pharaoh’s body was going to come to light one day and would testify to the authenticity of this verse of the Quran. A thousand years after this revelation, scientists in