God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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needed for life to develop? For example, there is
nothing more essential to life than water. Nothing
can come into existence or continue to survive
without it. Yet no one knows of anywhere in the
entire universe, except the earth, where it exists. We
then had a certain body of intellectuals who favored
a theory of Emergent Evolution, according to which
life—or its various forms—came into being all of a
sudden. But this theory is empty of meaning. How
can there be sudden appearance of life without the
intervention of an outside force—or Creator—to
discount which all these theories were originally
invented.
The fact of the matter is, without taking a Creator
into account, one cannot give a valid explanation of
life. There is simply no other theory which fits in
with the pattern of the universe. Being inconsistent
with the nature of life, other theories fail to take a
firm root. It is indeed significant that eminent
scholars from various fields have thought it fit to
contribute to an Encyclopaedia of Ignorance, which
has been published in London. The book has the
following introduction.
