God Arises
The Method of Argument
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observed facts. It is not the same thing as ‘blind
faith’. It is rather the most appropriate explanation
of the observed facts. Just as the corpuscular theory
of light propounded by Newton was rejected by
twentieth-century scientists because its explanation
of the phenomenon of light was found
unsatisfactory, we likewise reject the materialistic
theory of the universe, because it does not offer a
satisfactory explanation for the phenomenon of life
and the universe.
The source of our belief in an all-powerful Divinity
is exactly the same as that which a scientist takes
recourse to for his scientific theories. It is only after
making a thorough study of observed facts that we
have reached the conclusion that the explanations
offered by religion are the ultimate truth—truth of
such an order that, since time immemorial, it has
remained unaltered. In the light of new
observations and experiments, all man-made
theories, which were formulated within the last few
hundred years are being re-scrutinised, and many,
in the process, are being discarded. Religion on the
other land, presents a truth which is becoming more
and more clearly manifest with every advance in
