The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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Word will remain perennially free of all
inconsistency. The work of man, on the other hand,
is always marred by imperfection, for man himself
is imperfect; it does not lie within his power to
compose a work free of contradiction.
CONTRADICTIONS IN HUMAN REASONING
It is not by chance that the work of man is fraught
with contradictions. It is inevitable, given the inherent
limitations of human cerebral activity. Such is the
nature of creation that it accepts only the Thought of
its Creator. Any theory which is not in consonance
with His thinking can find no place in the universe. It
will contradict itself, for it stands at variance with the
universe at large; it will be inconsistent, for it does not
run true to the pattern of nature.
For this reason, intellectual inconsistency is bound
to mar any theory conceived of by man. We shall
illustrate this point by several examples.
DARWINISM
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), and other scientists
after him, developed the theory of Evolution from
