extraordinary progress has been made in different fields in the
present times, which have enabled man to understand the
changes over a period of time, whereas it has not hitherto been
possible for man to observe these changes. That is, on the one
hand, God will bring about eye-opening changes through advance
news of Doomsday, while exactly at the same time He will
provide man with modern scientific methods by which he may
directly learn about these changes.
By the beginning of the 21
st
century, scientists all over the
world had become unanimous in their warning that the earth
was changing rapidly as a result of global warming and climatic
changes. According to modern scientific observations, these
changes will render our earth uninhabitable by 2050.
Over the last 10 years, many reports have been published by
scientists on this subject. Recently, the
American Science Magazine
published one such report by James Hansen (67), a top scientist,
who is Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies
in New York. A summary of this report was published in
The
Times of India
, New Delhi, on April 9, 2008, under the caption
of “Earth in Crisis.” According to this report, (p. 35) “we have
already reached a dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.”
The news given by scientists regarding the disturbance of
the balance governing the life support systems on earth is based
not on theoretical calculations or conjecture, but rather on the
information garnered from observations. In our times the latest
scientific methods have been employed to enable continuous
study and observation on the basis of which these reports have
been published in the media. All such information is of a kind
which is accessible to anyone with a scientific background.
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