Our God — Page 74
74 was operating like a machine and all the transformations and the panorama was the result of this internal mechanism, and so on. This doubt has already been dealt with above. If observed carefully, the nature of industrial law operating in the world itself demands that we believe in a Higher Being, who is distinct and has placed in matter such judicious and most wise laws; and then, matter itself, with all its states and properties, demands a Creator and Master as well. It has also been pointed out that, besides the mechanism, there is also a definite design and purpose (i. e. teleol- ogy) in the world. All of this points to an independent Intelligent Designer who is the Creator and Master with a decretive will. This will be elaborated upon later in this book. Second, modern European philosophy has become a stum- bling block for some people, as the theory of evolution has pre- sented the creation of the universe and especially of man in a way that appears contradictory to the formal teachings of the known revealed religions of this age. It is but natural that when the cred- ibility of a revealed religion is called into question by a particular argument and one is unable to defend or counter that argument, then one can develop doubts concerning the existence of God. He starts thinking that what was attributed to God turned out to be incorrect, therefore, all this religious business is false and God too is nothing but a figment of imagination. The people in this age face exactly the same situation vis-à-vis the theory of evo- lution. The Christians from their priests, the Muslims from their maulav i s, the Hindus from their pundits, and others from their religious scholars used to hear that in the beginning it was all smoke or water from which God created all these diverse things, and that God created the heaven, the earth, and all that is between