Our God — Page 68
68 stages of scientific developments—that are completely distinct from, and unlike each other—are conflated. Thus, science, which is meant to enlighten the human mind with knowledge, ends up doing exactly the opposite: leading one to ignorance and darkness. Once something is established as a fact on the basis of scien- tific experiments and observations, it is clear that the academic circles in the world are stirred up and different scientists start positing various ideas and theories in light of the new research; thus, with each new piece of research, new ideas and new theo- ries crop up. The laymen, overawed by the word ‘science’ or for some other reason, regard all these suggestions as established sci- entific facts, whereas the real established facts are scarce and the rest are all theories, hypotheses, and ideas of the scientists that not only change every day, but are also disputed among scien- tists themselves. In short, it is a grave error not to differentiate between scientific hypotheses, incomplete experiments of scien- tists, and established scientific facts, and to submit slavishly to everything stated or written by any scientist. Unfortunately, this mental and academic slavery has been a characteristic largely of the people of the East, whereas Europeans and Americans usually make a distinction, and accept only those facts as scientific truths that have been confirmed after repeated tests and are also not found lacking in any way when examined on the basis of gener- ally accepted scientific principles. If we view the topic under discussion according to this prin- ciple, we do not see any established scientific fact that can form the basis of any objection to the existence of God. A small proof of this statement is as follows: When some new piece of research is actually confirmed to be an established truth, it becomes an