God Arises
Review
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of spontaneous evolution has been set up in place of
God. If the truth were told, the very dogma of
organic evolution, from which all of the
evolutionary concepts have been borrowed, is
nothing but a hypothesis without any evidence. But
this is not all. Some scientists have openly confessed
that if they believe in the concept of evolution, it is
simply because they can find no other alternative.
Sir Arthur Keith11 (1866-1955) said in 1953 that
evolution was unproved and unprovable and that
we believed in it only because the only alternative
was special creation and that was unthinkable.
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Scientists are thus agreed upon the validity of the
evolution theory simply because, if they discard it,
they will be left with no option but to believe in the
concept of God.
I confess that it is beyond my power to satisfy those
scholars whose bias, in favour of materialistic
reasoning is so strong that they are unable to keep
their minds open to self-evident facts. There is a
particular reason for the bias, about which George
Herbert Blount, an American physicist has this to
say:
