The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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scientific discovery towards atheism. They held that
whatever has been proved is an end and not the
cause. But what is the proof that it is an end? It is
quite possible that it may simply be an effect. The
atheists nevertheless maintain that, it is not
necessary that there must be a mind which, through
will, is guiding events deliberately towards a
particular end or conclusion; it may be possible
that, through the blind, interplay of some physical
and chemical forces, certain things on their own are
being produced which may, by chance, be
meaningful. When this meaningless explanation
itself has been produced through the exercise of will
(human will in this instance), how strange it would
be to believe in the functioning of a meaningful
universe without a will behind it.
After the emergence of science, atheist thinkers
have, on a very large scale, attempted to point
science in the direction of atheism. On the contrary,
the attempts of religious thinkers to utilize scientific
evidence to support the claims of religion have been
extremely few and far between. Over the last one
hundred years thousands of books of a high
academic standard have come out which aim, quite
