The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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problems of its own. Where in the vastness of space
was there a planet or a star with the conditions
needed for life to develop? For example, there is
nothing more essential to life than water. Nothing
can come into existence or continue to survive
without it. Yet no one knows of anywhere in the
entire universe, except the earth, where it exists. We
then had a certain body of intellectuals who
favoured a theory of Emergent Evolution, according
to which life – or its various forms – came into
being all of a sudden. But this theory is empty of
meaning. How can there be sudden appearance of
life without the intervention of an outside force? So
we are back to where we started, with the Outside
Force – or Creator – to discount which all these
theories were originally invented.
The fact of the matter is, without taking a Creator
into account, one cannot give a valid explanation of
life. There is simply no other theory which fits in
with the pattern of the universe. Being inconsistent
with the nature of life, other theories fail to take
firm root. It is indeed significant that eminent
scholars from various fields have thought fit to
contribute to an Encyclopaedia of Ignorance, which
