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represented the setting of the stage for the appearance of man. It is remarkable how religious people insult their God in the attempt to rationalise faith! To argue that it took God all these ages to create the world, so that his images on earth could be properly protected, is to deny the godliness of God, namely, his omnipotence. Honest religion, straight-forward faith, requires a real God, the biblical God, for example, or the Pauranic gods. Such a god commands faith by his own merit. He does not require a tribe of pseudophilosophers to apologise for his existence, to rationalise his essence of irrationalism. Reason and faith are strange bed-fellows. If they are coerced to cohabit, the off-spring is a curious hybrid which is neither religion nor philosophy. Science and superstition are equally incompatible; astrology is the bastard born of their illicit love-more correctly speaking, of the violation of science by superstition.
The notion that the long processes of physical and biological evolution took place to set the stage for the appearance of God's special creation, man, is incredible by itself. Nevertheless, it could persist as a prejudice, if the knowledge of the evolution of the physical Universe did not disclose the utter absence of intelligence in the process. Ultimately, modern astronomy and astral physics have come to the conclusion that physical evolution does not as a rule culminate in the appearance of the
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