Book Title: Jain Philosophy and Modern Science
Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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________________ ESSENCE OF SOUL 143 the different parts of the world Voluminous books have been written on the subject But 1 spite of all this it does not react favourably upon the minds of earnest thinkers Many of the theories advanced by science in regard to Cosmology and Biology are obviously such that we can call them nothin but figments of imagination of some fertile scientific minds For instance they say that the Earth is a piece separated from the sun, and as the moon rotates round the earth it also must be a piece torn from the earth Other instances of such imaginative thinking on the part of science are that in the olden days the earth must have been like an apple and that its pointed end must have become a moon after separation Still greater evidence of such flights of fancy on the part of science and scientists can be discovered in their theory of evolution according to which, the scientists say that human being evolved to their present shape from a monkey or an anthropoid or ape If we were to believe this theory the question arises as to where did the tail of the creature that human being originally was, vanish and how it disappeared It was then imagined by the scientists that the champanzee which is the nearest relative of the ancestors of the human race) came down from the trees and acquired the habit of sitting and, in the process of sitting the tail got worn out slowly but steadily so much so that eventually it completely vanished If we were to examine

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