TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

twentieth centuries. The discovery of facts today by scientific research is akin to removing the veil of ignorance which prevented humankind from seeing the face of God. This has been expressed by a scientist in these words: “Nature and science speak about God.” The world discovered by science is so unique that it cannot be explained without accepting the existence of God. In former times, people used to ask, “If God created the universe, who created God?” Questions such as these have now become meaningless, because they are irrelevant. In view of the new scientific findings it has become possible for us to assert that, in this world, the option is not between the universe with God and the universe without God. The real option is between the universe with God, and no universe at all. We cannot refute the existence of the universe; therefore, we cannot refute the existence of God as well. It has to be conceded that the concept of God is linked with the universe exactly as the concept of an engineer is linked with the concept of a great machine. If we believe in the existence of the machine, we shall inevitably have to believe in the engineer who created it. God is a reality, albeit invisible. He does not come under our direct observation and experience. Hence His existence can be proved only by inferential or indirect argument, for direct argument in this case is not possible. It was previously held that the subject of God was a matter of dogma, pertaining only to accepted creeds. Therefore, it was a topic neither for academic debate nor for logical, scientific analysis. Now, however, the situation has totally changed. Scientific discoveries have shown that the atom is not a material entity at all, but waves of electrons, waves which are invisible. We cannot observe the electrons themselves, but only their indirect effects. Advances in human knowledge of the material world brought about a number of changes, one of these being a revision of the principles of the science of logic. In the age of Newton, only direct argument was held to be valid in logic. But in the new age ushered in by Einstein, it came to be established that indirect argument or inferential argument was logically as acceptable as direct argument. The world discovered by science is so unique that it cannot be explained without the acceptance of God.