The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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for this is that it is of divine, not human origin: the
absolute truth of its statements can be proved at all
times – an extraordinary attribute that no other
work can claim.
Einstein’s theory of relativity declares that gravity
controls the behaviour of planets, stars, galaxies and
the universe itself, and does so in a predictable
manner.
This scientific discovery had already been
developed into a philosophy by Hume (1711-1776)
and other thinkers, who declared that the whole
system of the universe was governed by the
principle of causation, and that it had only been
when man had not been aware of this, that God had
been supposed to control the universe. The
principle of cause and effect was then thought
logically to dispense with the idea of God.
But later research ran counter to this purely
material supposition. When Paul Dirac, Heisenberg
and other eminent scientists bent their minds to
analysing the structure of the atom, they discovered
that its system contradicted the principle of
causation which had been adopted on the basis of
