Journal of Muslim and World Affairs

  Science and God: Waheeduddin Ahmed, Ph.D.   How do religion and science deal with the fundamental question of being, i.e., how everything came into existence? An example of the religious point of view on the subject is the Bible’s declaration: He said Be and it came into being. “It , we presume is the whole universe as it came into being instantaneously in a certain initial form. Since we witness that the universe is not static but dynamic, its initial form must have been quite different from what we see now. We see that the universe is a highly organized assembly of congruent matter interacting with clockwork precision. We deduce therefore that at its inception the universe must have been in an elementary, chaotic form, with all its elements existing loose and separate. Also, the Bible tells us that our progenitors: Adam and Eve, at first lived in the Garden of Eden, where waters flowed, vegetation flourished, and reptiles hissed. When they were sent down to earth, the e