New Light

By Samanandha

New Light takes a look at the atheistic philosophies of big bang and evolution without being intimidated by the hostile pressure built by media, celebrities, scientists and intelligentsia. All of us have gone to schools and colleges but can we recollect what the books had to say about the following topics:- the big bang threw out matter but where did that matter originally come from? how did the Laws of Physics and Chemistry get created? how did the stellar bodies build themselves when all around us we only see existing things breaking down? how did the first ever plant cell find food and how exactly did it reproduce itself? why dont we see spontaneous generation of life happening anywhere in the world? how did butterflies design their beautiful and symmetrical patterns? which part of the body did animals use to think before they created a brain for themselves? why do we have zero knowledge about our bodies and have to go to schools and colleges to find out the same, when actually, we should know all these things by heart since we have evolved i.e. created our bodies? These are important questions but the books just rush through these portions. We are bullied into silence by the words science and scientific and accept these theories by faith without subjecting them to critical analysis. New Light is an attempt to find out the truth about the world around us undeterred by the dogma of the most rigid religion of all - atheism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jul 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482849271

Samanandha

Samanandha is an Indian settled in Mumbai. He is aged 49 but has retained all the curiosity of a young child. He has refused to accept things merely because they are called ‘scientific’ and are taught as truth by teachers in schools and colleges. He has not allowed ‘negative labelling’ by a hostile atheistic environment to intimidate and hinder his free thinking. He has found out ‘truths’ in a New Light.

Book preview

Copyright © 2015 by Samanandha.

Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®). Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

www.partridgepublishing.com/india

CONTENTS

Preface

Greetings to the Reader!

The Attitude towards Knowledge

Chapter 1   The universe

Chapter 2   Stars & Planets

Chapter 3   The Sun

Chapter 4   The Moon

Chapter 5   The earth

Chapter 6   The Plants

Chapter 7   The Animals

Chapter 8   Man

Chapter 9   Are we Aliens?

Chapter 10   Are we Gods?

Chapter 11   Atheism and Science

Chapter 12   God

Chapter 13   New Light

Thanks

LET THERE BE LIGHT [GENESIS 1:3]

PREFACE

A s a young boy fascinated by the huge blanket of darkness that covered the night sky, I always looked up to the stars and wondered how they ever came into being or who put them there. Those small shining specks of dust, are they really as big as people say they are? How do they just stay up there and don’t fall right down on us? As I grew older, the number of questions that I sought answers to began to increase. With the subject so dominated by opinions from people trying to decipher the expanse with theories founded on probabilities and limitless time, I wondered if the Creator would ever receive credit.

Understanding creation is a very important step in the journey towards understanding the Creator. Creation is the magnificent display of God’s being and man can spend his entire existence trying to comprehend it but might barely scratch the surface.

There has always been a contest between science and the Bible and I’m really pleased with the level of maturity and truth with which the author sheds light on this subject. The Word and the Work of the Creator are always in sync and this book proves this fact throughout.

I believe this book would be the answer to many creation lovers like me, people with many questions about the beauty that fills the expanse.

It’s my heartfelt desire that this book reaches every star gazer and gives him information on that bit of reality that has the power to transform his life forever.

PRINCE JOEL

Preacher – Pastor - Pilot

GREETINGS TO THE READER!

H ello! This book has been written in response to certain questions which arise in our minds. All of us have paused at some time, in the mad rush of our everyday living, to wonder who we are and how we have come to exist on earth. When we were in school we were too young to understand things and our books taught us only one particular view. We were never informed that there were other world views and we were never encouraged to compare the plus points and minus points of the various views in order to arrive at the truth. Our innocent minds were fed with only one ‘line of thinking’ and all other options were omitted. Naturally we grew up believing our school books especially since it appeared as if their authors had complete knowledge of all the information in the universe. After growing up, we found ourselves too busy to stop and think about what we had been taught at school. There were moments when we felt that we had missed out something and that our books could be wrong. Our thinking minds could not accept that we human beings were just modified monkeys and it seemed strange that the beauty and symmetry in the universe were the results of mere random chance. We, however, never found the time to follow our thoughts and chose to remain passive. Today we are living in enlightened days and the time has now come to examine the teachings of our school and college books and also explore other possibilities before reaching a conclusion about what is most likely to be the truth. It is our ‘right’ to find out whether we and our universe are here just by ‘chance’ and ‘fluke,’ as our school books tell us. We need ‘light’ to see things clearly and we are now going to look at the truth of our existence and the knowledge available in our books in a ‘NEW LIGHT!’

9 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. [Psalm119:105]

THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE

✓ Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. [Proverbs 4: 5-8]

✓ And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? [Luke 12:57]

CHAPTER 1

THE UNIVERSE

O ur books tell us that we are staying on a planet called earth, which is revolving around a star called the sun, which is part