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JAIN PIILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE This kind of change taking place in nature is known. as 'creation' and 'deluge' by the people According to Jainism, 'deluge' does not mean "complete annihilation"; it is the farthest limit of the degeneration.
It is quite probable that the changes taking place on the surface of the earth in the form of the evolution and degeneration, and also under the surface the earth are the means of speculations of the modern science regarding the creation and destruction of the earth In the end we can say that Jain-physics can be helpful to the new thoughts for solving the mystery of the earth's processes and also about the evolution of life. Hence it is desirable that the geologists and other authorities should pay more attention to this.
