Islam and Peace
Faith and Reason
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prove their validity from the logical point of view.
Those who have opted for one religion or the other
have done so, according to Russell, under the
influence of their traditions and environment,
rather than on the strength of argument.
However, Bertrand Russell has admitted this fact
when he says, “there is one of these arguments
which is not purely illogical. I mean the argument
from design. This argument, however, was
destroyed by Darwin.”
He intends here to say that the existence of God is
proved by the argument that in this world where
there is design there should be a designer. He
admits that this method of argument in its nature is
the same as that used to prove scientific concepts.
However, even after this admission, he rejects this
argument by saying that it has been destroyed by
Darwinism.
This is, however, a wholly baseless point, as
Darwin’s theory is related to the Creator’s process
of creation rather than to the existence of the
Creator. To put it briefly, Darwinism states that the
various species found in the world were not
