God Arises
Review
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thing, we have truly understood the cause of its
motion? Have we really grasped its secrets? And
does the possession of knowledge about the
functioning of a machine give us proof that it is self-
manufacturing,
self-replicating
and
works
automatically? If the answer to this is ‘No’, then
how do a few glances at the mechanism of the
universe prove that this entire system came into
existence unaided and of its own accord, and is
continuing to function independently? Criticizing
Darwinism, A. Harris made a similar remark:
‘Natural Selection may explain the survival of the
fittest but cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.’
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Now take the psychological argument, which holds
that far from being a reality, the concept of God and
the life hereafter is a myth, a mere fiction, a
stretching of the human personality and human
wishes to the cosmic scale. I fail to understand what
possible basis there can be for this claim. Moreover,
if I were indeed to claim that human personality
and human wishes did, in fact, exist on a cosmic
plane, I doubt if my antagonists would have
sufficient factual data to refute my claim.
