Views of Scientists on the Existence of God — Page 12
12 is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms of this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of true religiousness. . He further says:. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. (The Universe and Dr. Einstein, by Lincoln Bsrnett p. 118,. Mentor 1950). The origin of the universe and the origin of life are two fundamental problems of research in science, I have referred to the origin of the universe. I shall now make some mention of the origin of life. The Holy. Quran says:. How can you disbelieve in Allah? You were without life and He gave you life. (2:29). Let us now hear the same argument in the words of a scientist. . Professor Edwin Conklin, famous biologist of the Princeton University says:. The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. (Evidence p. 174). Supporting this view, Dr. Edmund Carl Kornfeld, a research chemist, says:. I subscribe to that statement unreservedly. It is my firm conviction that there is a God, and that He planned, created and sustains the universe. (Evidence p. 174). In the light of his knowledge of chemistry, he expresses his views as follows:. We will admit that we must believe in a supreme creative intelligence in Nature, or as the only alternative to this we must believe that the universe as we find it has come about as the result of chance, and