God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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But the same author rejects this great call from
nature on the basis of certain trifling misgivings:
Now this appears a very reasonable theory as
long as we do not examine it closely, and as
long as we do not carry out its propositions to
their full extent. But when we do so we find
that it conducts us to absurdity as we shall
very quickly prove. The souls of idiots, not
being responsible for their sins, will go to
heaven, the soul of such men as Goethe and
Rousseau are in danger of hell-fire. Therefore
it is better to be born an idiot than to be born a
Goethe or a Rousseau and that is altogether
absurd.
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His rejection is just like Lord Kelvin’s refusal to
accept the results of Maxwell’s research. Lord
Kelvin asserted that unless he could develop a
mechanical model of whatever was under scientific
consideration, he could not attest to his
understanding it. That is why he did not accept
Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory of light as it
could not be fitted into his material frame. Today
such a notion seems quite absurd in the world of
