GRATITUDE TO THE CREATOR

Professor Carl Troll (1899-1975) was President of the International Geographical Union from 1960 to 1964. He once remarked:

“The fruit of my life as a scientist and geographer is to become more deeply grateful to our Creator.”

When a scientist studies the world, an immense awareness of its wonders wells up inside him. If he acknowledges the world’s Creator, as Professor Troll did, his inner self expresses gratitude to that Being who brought such a meaningful universe into existence.

Some people wrongly think that scientific truths and religious truths are mutually contradictory. It is simply not true. The findings of modern science have automatically accepted all claims of religious truths. Many scientists are devout believers in the Creator, God Almighty, finding enough evidence for God in the findings of modern science. It is a fact, though, that some deniers of God among the philosophers wrongly interpreted modern scientific discoveries to imply the non-existence of God, even though these discoveries, when rightly interpreted, actually pointed in the opposite direction—to God’s existence.

When scientists study nature, a profound sense of its greatness emerges within them. Their inner being bows before the entity that created such a meaningful universe. The truth is that scientists were not responsible for forming the mindset of denying God in the modern era. Instead, it was some atheistic philosophers who misrepresented scientific discoveries, thereby, creating a self-constructed meaning of atheism. In reality, these scientific discoveries more accurately pointed towards the affirmation of God.