Islam The Voice of Human Nature
2. THE CONCEPT OF MONOTHEISM
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Ian
Roxburgh,
Professor
of
Applied
Mathematics, Queen Mary College, London,
observes: ‘The universe is astonishingly
uniform. No matter which way we look, the
universe has the same constituents in the same
proportions. The laws of physics discovered on
earth contain arbitrary numbers, like the ratio of
an electron to the mass of a proton, which is
roughly 1840 to one. But these turn out to be the
same in all places at all times. Did a creator
arbitrarily choose these numbers? Or must
these numbers have the particular uniform
value we observe for the universe to exist?’
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1.
The Sunday Times,
London, December
4, 1977; further details in the paper, ‘The
Cosmic Mystery’ in the
Encyclopaedia of
Ignorance
by Ronald Duncan and Weston
Smith, Oxford, Pergamon, 1978, pp. 37- 45.
This fact clearly indicates that the universe is
forever under the control of a supreme being –
its Creator and Sovereign: God.
‘If there is a God, why is He not visible to us?’
This is a question often put by atheists and
