Views of Scientists on the Existence of God — Page 11
arrangement has been made for the fulfilment of all the needs of man in this world, and this system is so complete that no person who looks at the complete pictures, can think that all this happened by chance. Thus God says that you look at the system of the heaven and the earth which is even harder in creation than your own selves. You may say that any one thing is accidental, or that two things are accidental; hut how can you say that the entire system is by chance? (Tafseere Kabeer: Commentary of Chapter 79) 11. Let us now listen to this argument for the existence of God Almighty given by the Holy Quran and explained in an easy way by Hazrat. Khalifatul Masih II (may Allah be pleased with him), in the words of various scientists. . Sir Issac Newton is regarded as the greatest of all the scientists that the world has produced. According to him the universe could not be explained without belief in God. He says:. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. (Our Solar system and the Stellar Universe, by. Charles Whyte, p. 131 Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd. London 1923). At the time of Newton, the study of the laws of nature was called. Natural Philosophy. According to Newton, the inference of the existence of God from the study of the universe, was within the realm of Natural philosophy. But later on, when knowledge was divided into various disciplines, the domain of the scientist was limited to the study of the material things and the problem whether God exists or not, was considered outside the real precincts of science. Nevertheless, in the present twentieth century, scientists have expressed their views about God. •. Dr. Albert Einstein is one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. Dr. Infeld, who had the opportunity of working with him, wrote about Einstein as follows:. When he had a new idea he asked himself: Could God have created the world in this way? or Is this mathematical structure worthy of. God? (Quest, by Leopold Infeld, p. 212). Enraptured by the beauty and grandeur of the universe and the profound wisdom which underlies it, Dr. Einstein says:. The most beautiful and the most profound emotion we can experience