Islam and Peace
Faith and Reason
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forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has
gone cycling on according to the fixed law of
gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms
most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and
are being evolved (p. 408).
It is true that the new facts regarding the universe
discovered in the twentieth century have
revolutionised the world of logic. Now the
difference between religious argument and
scientific argument which had been erroneously
conceived prior to the twentieth century, has been
eliminated. Now in respect of argument, the case of
science too has reached exactly the same point as
religion.
Newton (1642-1727) made a special study of the
solar system, discovering laws governing the
revolution of planets around the sun. His study
was, however, confined to astronomical bodies,
which can be called the macro-world. It is possible
in the macro world to weigh and measure things.
As a result of the immediate impact of these
discoveries, many began to think along the lines
that reality was observable, and that proper and
