God Arises
Challenge of Modern Knowledge
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supernatural force, vanished of itself. If the rainbow
is merely a reflection of sunlight in minute droplets
of water in the air, it is not, in any way, a sign
placed in the sky by God. If the plague is inevitably
an outbreak of this disease, it can no longer be
looked on as a sign of divine wrath. If animals and
plants have slowly evolved over hundreds of
millions of years, there is no room for a ‘Creator’ of
animals and plants, except in a metaphorical sense–
quite different from that in which the word was
originally and is now normally used. If hysteria and
insanity are external symptoms of disordered
minds, there is no place left in them for possession
by devils. Citing such events in support of his
argument, Julian Huxley observes with great
conviction: “If events are due to natural causes, they
are not due to supernatural causes.”
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He holds that their ascription to Supernatural
Beings is merely due to man’s ignorance combined
with his passion for some sort of explanation.
Subsequent research carried out in the field of
psychology further strengthened this point of view,
as it revealed that religion is the creation of man’s
subconscious self rather than the discovery of some
