God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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possible on one occasion, it is perfectly possible for
it to come into existence a second time. There would
be nothing very strange about the recurrence of our
present experience of life. In truth, there is nothing
so irrational as admitting to a present occurrence,
while rejecting the probability of its recurrence in
the future.
Modern man falls unwittingly into self-
contradiction. He is sure that the gods he has forged
(the law of nature, chance, etc.) can cause the
recurrence of certain sequences of events, but that
the God of religion is not at all in a position to cause
a regenesis of the present world. Explaining that the
present earth and all its attributes owe their origin
to an “accident”, Sir James Jeans epitomises this
school of thought: “There is no wonder if our earth
originated out of certain accidents. If the universe
survives for a long period, any thinkable accident is
likely to occur.”18
The doctrine of organic evolution asserts that all the
species of animals have evolved from the same
rudimentary species. According to Darwin, the
present giraffe was originally like the other hoofed
