Religion and Science
4. Religion and the Life Hereafter
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Shibli Nomani ends the discussion at this point.
And of a work dating back to 1901, we could hardly
expect more.
Modern research, however, has opened up new
vistas of events and realities, so that we can now
assert to a certain extent that the permanent
existence of the soul, independently of the body, or
the survival of the soul after the death of the body is
no more a thing which involves blind faith; rather it
has become a reality which can be empirically
proved.
Science has discovered that the body is composed of
innumerable tiny cells, the number of which in an
average body is placed at one thousand, one
hundred million. These cells disintegrate each
moment, but our diet makes up for those destroyed
cells and they are replaced with new ones. The body
is thus like a building which is composed of billions
of bricks but which is in the process of replacing its
bricks at every moment. Now, if the soul is a
phenomenon of the body, then with the
disintegration or changing of the cells of the body,
the soul should simultaneously undergo the same
