Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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fling at justifying their stand, argue that, 'Notwithstanding the admission of defeat by science in its attempts to create life, at least the point must be conceded that there was no life on earth at the beginning and at present it is teeming with living creatures of all kinds; so, wherefrom did life originate on this planet ? How could such vast creation come into being from nothing ? One has got to, therefore, yield to the hypothesis of the earth's cooling taking place and at some point in time, when atmosphere became congenial enough to sustain life, a chain of chemical reactions set in with eventual evolution of life as described earlier. If one refuses to accept this as plausible, how else could one explain the life flourishing in such diversity of form on this planet which at one time was barren mass of inert matter ? The growing accumulation of evidence from the study of fossils also strongly supports the view of progressive evolution of life on earth beginning with primitive forms and reaching the complexity of structure and function in the higher species. There is no way one could ignore the mass of such impressive scientific evidence'.
On the basis of above argument, Darwin has postulated his theory of evolution; many serious objections have been raised against this Darwinian theory by noted biologists and scientists. Despite these, the protagonists of evolution theory have continued their propaganda that evolution theory is completely scientific, unmindful of the arguments to the contrary by others. Hence, evolution (a la Darwin) has dominated the line of thought of the intelligentsia, but in academic circles, it is now being increasingly challenged by many top-ranking scientists. The world-renowned British astronomist Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr. Chandra Vikramasinghe, Professor of Mathematics and astronomy, Cardiff university have recently put up a theory that, millions or trillions of years ago, lifespores descended upon our planet from outer space and life
on the earth and not through a freak chance of chemical interaction accidently. Their theory is based on mathematical and astronomical calculation. When they set out
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