Divinity In Jainism

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Devendra Printing and Publishing Co Ltd

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philosophers contend that there is no intelligence at the back of the universe. The order that is found in the heavenly bodies is only a special application of the law of matter and not any fiat of an Intelligent God. Geological evidences are no evidences of intelligence; the subterranean strata revcal terrible operations of the inexorable material laws The origination of life also is explained by unconscious matter, the parts and limbs of an animal bear no evidences of an Intelligent Architect-they also are products of slow and gradual evolution. As a matter of fact, there are still many organs and limbs which are useless to the animals, nay, positively harmful to them Look--how many animals are suffering every moment, how many are meeting with untimely deaths Consideration of these things leads many philosophers to repudiate the theistic doctrine of God. Their further contention is that if you admit a necessity in God for creating the universe, you make Him finite. As regards the doctrine of kindness in God, they say that the world, as it is, does not prove it. Will any intelligent man be tempted to read kindness in the world of creation where there are deaths, famines, natural calamities, due epidemics, oppressions, tyrannies and endless sufferings ?