BLESS mUHAMMAD bAQIR sADRS WORK.......a scientific theo INDUCTIVE METHOD TO PROVE EXSITENCE OF A CREATOR EXCEPT IN THE CASES OF STUBBORN REFUSAL y. Let us consider the theory concerning the development of the planets and their separation from the sun. The nine planets were originally part of the sun from which they separated as burning pieces millions of years ago. Scientists generally agree with regard to the prin- ciple of the theory, but differ concerning the cause of the separation of these pieces from the sun. Demonstration of the principle on which they agree would follow these steps. a scientific theory. Let us consider the theory concerning the development of the planets and their separation from the sun. The nine planets were originally part of the sun from which they separated as burning pieces millions of years ago. Scientists generally agree with regard to the prin- ciple of the theory, but differ concerning the cause of the separation of these pieces from the sun. Demonstration of the principle on which they agree would follow these steps. a. The rotation of the earth around the sun is in harmony with the rotation of the sun around its axis, each complete rotation being from west to east. b. The rotation of the earth around its axis is concurrent with the rotation of the sun around its axis, that is, from west to east. c. The earth rotates around the sun in an orbit parallel to the equatorial line of the sun, so that the sun would resemble a pole and the earth a point rotating around it, like a millstone. d. The elements of which the earth is made are for the most part found in the sun as well. e. There is a close similarity between the elements of the earth and those of the sun in their chemical composition, in both hydrogen predominates. f. The speed of the rotation of the earth around the sun and around its own axis is in harmony with that of the rotation of the sun around its axis. g. There is a measure of agreement between the age of the earth and the age of the sun, according to the calculations of scientists. h. The inside of the earth is hot, which 57 The Revealer, the Messenger and the Message proves that the earth in its early stages was very hot. ii. These were some of the phenomena which scientists observed through sense experience and experimentation in the first step. In the second, they decided that there is a hypothesis by which all these phenomena could be explained. This means that if the hypothesis were to be actually true, then it would inherently belong to these phenomena and justify them. The hypothesis holds that the earth was part of the sun from which it separated, for whatever reasons. With this assump- tion, we can explain the foregoing phenomena. harmony of the rotation of the earth around the sun and that of the sun around its own axis is due to the motion of both being from west to east. The reason for this harmony becomes clear on the basis of the above hypothesis, which further holds that if part of any body in motion is separated from it while remaining drawn towards it by a thread or some other means, that separated part will always move in the same original orbit in accordance with the law of continuity. As for the second phenomenon, which is the harmony 5 8 The Revealer (al-Mursil) of the rotation of the earth around its axis with the rotation of the sun around its axis, this also can be sufficiently explained by the same hypoth- esis and according to the same law. The same holds for the third phenomenon as well. As for the fourth and fifth phenomena, which demon- strate a close similarity of composition and pro- portion of the elements which make up the earth and the sun, they become self evident on the basis of the fact that the earth was part of the sun. The elements of a part must be those of the whole. The sixth phenomenon, namely, the har- mony between the speed of the earths rotation around the sun and around its axis and that of the sun around its axis becomes clear because we know that both motions of the earth origi- nated from the motion of the sun. This we know on the basis of our earlier hypothesis, which presupposes the separation of the earth from the sun. This not only explains the observed harmony, but also delineates its cause. On the basis of the same hypothesis, we can explain the similarity in age of the two bodies, which is our seventh phenomenon. Likewise, the eighth, which is the intense heat of the earth in its early stages, can 59 The Revealer, the Messenger and the Message be explained on the basis of the same hypothesis. iii. If we were to suppose that the theory of the separation of the earth from the sun is not true, it would be highly unlikely for all these phenomena to exist together and be closely con- nected. In this case, they would simply be a collection of coincidences without any intelligible connection among them. Therefore, the prob- ability of their existence, if we suppose the falsity of our theory, would be very small indeed. This is because this supposition would require a large number of hypotheses for the explanation of these phenomena. With regard to the harmony between the motion of the earth around the sun and the sun around its own axis, from west to east, we would have to assume that the earth was a body far away from the sun, created independently or part of another sun from which it separated subsequently drawing near to our sun. We would also have to suppose that this earth, travelling freely in space, upon entering its orbit around the sun entered at a point west of the sun. For this reason, it continues to rotate from west to east, that is, in the direction of the suns 60 The Revealer (al-Mursil) own rotation around its axis. If it had instead entered at a point east of the sun, it would have moved from east to west. As for the harmony between the rotation of the earth around its axis and the rotation of the sun around its axis from west to east, we would have to suppose that the other sun from which the earth separated was itself rotating from west to east. As for the rotation of the earth around the sun, in an orbit parallel to the equa- torial line of the sun, we would likewise have to suppose that the other sun from which the earth separated was at that moment situated in the same plane as the equatorial line of our sun. As for the similarity of the elements of the earth and the sun and their composition, we would have to suppose that the other sun from which the earth separated contained the same elements and in similar proportion. As for the speed of the rotation of the earth around the sun and around its own axis, being harmonious with the speed of the suns rotation around its axis, we would have to suppose that the other sun from which the earth separated exploded in a way which gave the moving earth a speed similar to 6 1 The Revealer, the Messenger and the Message that of our sun. As for the age of the sun and the earth and the heat of the earth in the early stages of its development, we would have to suppose that the earth separated from another sun having the same age as our sun and that it sepa- rated in a manner which led to its intense heat. Thus we see that the possibility of the simulta- neous existence of all these phenomena on the principle of the invalidity of the theory of the separation of the earth from our sun, requires a large number of coincidences, the probability of whose simultaneous occurrence is very small. In contrast, the separation theory alone is suffi- cient for explaining these phenomena and con- necting them together. iv. In the fourth step we conclude that since the coincidence of all these phenomena, which we observe in the earth, is improbable except to a very small degree, on the assumption that the earth was not separated from our sun, it must be highly probable (since all these phenomena do indeed exist) that the earth did indeed separate from our sun. v. In the fifth and last step, we connect the possibility of the separation hypothesis, as 62 The Revealer (al-Mursil) inferred in the fourth step, with the low prob- ability of the coincidence of the phenomena in the earth without its having been separated from the sun, as we decided in the third step. The connection between these two steps would show a strong improbability for the third step and, conversely, a high probability for the fourth. We are able by means of this method to demon- strate the separation of the earth from the sun, by which means scientists achieve absolute con- viction of this fact...vortex
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