God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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Truth is not arrived at purely through experience
and reasoning.
Human beings, in addition to making inadvertent
and unwitting errors (for the simple reason that
they
are
humans, and not God!) are all too prone to
make deliberate misrepresentations of facts when
they are motivated by the base emotions of greed,
envy, jealousy, revenge and fear. One such
notorious instance in which the entire western
scientific establishment were made dupes of for
about half a century was that of the “discovery” of
the Piltdown Man, a supposedly “missing link”
(according to the evolutionists) between man and
his ancestor, the ape. In 1912, the English
newspapers trumpeted the news that a fragment of
an ancient skull, half ape and half man dating back
to some nebulous pre-historic period, had been
found at Piltdown, thus providing material
evidence which confirmed Darwin’s theory of
evolution.
This Piltdown man achieved instant popularity. The
name appeared in standard textbooks such as R.S.
Lull’s
Organic Evolution
.
Leading intellectuals
