Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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One can gauge the popularity of this theory by the
fact that in his 700-page book, Lull has dealt with
the concept of the special creation of life in just one
page and a few lines, while the whole of the rest of
the book is devoted to the concept of organic
evolution. Similarly, the Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1958) devotes less than a quarter of a page to the
concept of creationism, while fourteen pages have
been devoted to the concept of organic evolution. In
this article too, the evolution of life has been
postulated as a fact and it is stated that after
Darwin, this concept has received general
acceptance among scientists and the educated elite.
What precisely are those arguments in favour of
organic evolution, which have caused scholars of the
modern age to accept the ‘truth’ of this concept? Here,
in order to analyse the nature of those arguments I
shall deal with some of their more basic aspects.
1. The study of animal life shows that inferior and
superior species exist. They range from the single-
cellular to creatures with millions and billions of
cells, as well as differing in the quality of their
functional properties.
