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-J42 JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE that "Once upon a time the whole of this earth was a huge sphere of burning gas over the whole face of which the atoms were scattered. The atoms drew nearer and became united into aggregates Then virus and bacteria came into existence. Then came Ameobama jelly like creature without bones Then came immobile vegetable life which was taking its food directly from nature After this came the moving animals who depended for their food upon others. After this came the fishes and amphibians. Some of them took to air while the others remained on the land Then they started speaking and speech developed. After this came mamiferous ape--an anthropoid or a jungleman The anthropoid developed into a primitive biped roaming about in the forests.
brom amongst these bipeds some couples underwent such a great evolution that mutation occurred and in this way they became the first ancestors of our human race."34 It is astonishing to note that science, which regarded and classed as ignorance and blind faith the traditional ideas of human beings regarding universe, accepted as scientific facts the above mentioned theories without their having been borne out by experiments and solely relying on imagination for their origin and existence It is said for its own sake that the theory of evolution has been justified mostly by experiments Great efforts have been made to impart to it an authentic touch by the acquired fossiles from
34 Manav Samaj p 1
