God and the Life Hereafter
God and the Life Hereafter
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have created a world which was imperfect—and
therefore meaningless—as far as its objective was
concerned. Yet despite all its meaningfulness, our
world in its present state is incomplete. It requires
the existence of another world for its completion. It
is such a world that all of the prophets in turn have
called the world of the Hereafter.
This world of the Hereafter is not just a matter of
dogma. It is an entirely scientific fact. Indeed, the
existence of the Hereafter can be proved
academically in exactly the same way and by the
same scientific standards as all other things are
proved in the field of science.
SCIENTIFIC PROOF
First of all, we must define scientific proof.
According to modern science, scientific proof does
not mean that there can be any degree of absolute
certainty about whatever is to be proved. This kind
of undeniable certainty is not universally possible.
According to the modern scientific stand, when we
say that something has been scientifically proved,
this statement only means that its probability has