Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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directly attributable to God. But modern findings
revealed that behind every event there was a cause,
which was discoverable by observation. For
instance, Newton observed that all the stars and
planets in the vastness of space are bound by
certain immutable laws and move in strict accor-
dance with those laws. Darwin’s research showed
that man had not come into existence through an
act of special creation but had evolved, in
consonance with general material laws, from the
lower species and had gradually developed into
homo sapiens,
i.e. man as we now know him. Similar
observational studies showed that all events
seemed to occur as part of a known system called
the ‘Law of Nature.’ Significantly, this law of nature
functioned with such effective regularity that it was
considered entirely predictable.
These discoveries were taken to mean that the
universe, which we had regarded as God’s domain,
was actually subservient to a set of material and
physical laws. When these laws were applied, they
yielded consistent results, and this further
convinced members of the educated elite that they
were right in embracing atheism. The German
