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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE and question some of the reasoning and solutions advanced by science and scientists, there will be long series of such arguments But the theory of evolution is about to make its last bow to the scientific world itself The basic principals of the theory of evolution were conceived out of imagination and the inferences drawn on that basis are tumbling down one after the other The oldest fossils found from the different parts of the world are no longer the evidence of the theory of evolution
Dialectical Materialism
Dialectical Materialism is also one of the scientific systems which is opposed to spiritualism We can call it scientisfic materialism too Vade vade jayate tatva bodham" According to this principle, the word 'DIALECTICAL' can mean by-synthetical also; but in the present context the meaning of 'Dialectical' is Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
Thesis is a statement put forth by a person, the opposition of the same by another then becomes antithesis If from these two opposite things a third thing is originated it comes to be known as synthesis. The advocate of dilectical materialism would illustrate his principles in the following way
Thesis: The soul is Material:
Antithesis. The soul is not material, it is an absolutely different substance possessing consciouness.
