God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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of the universe, this is an exceptional case, bearing
no relation to the experiences of millions of human
beings. It is simply that such an individual is so
engrossed in his own private predilections that he
has became deaf and blind to common realities. For
the sake of argument, he would have us concede his
point, but this would in no way imply that God did
not exist. The absurdity of arguments against the
existence of commonly accepted things is so patent
as to be hardly worth a comment. And quite apart
from being incomprehensible to the common man,
they could never gain credence in the world of
learning.
Outside the nihilist group, the existence of the
universe is accepted as a reality: the moment we
admit its existence, we find belief in God
inescapable, because the notion of creation having
arisen spontaneously out of nothing is quite
inconceivable. When everything big or small, has a
cause, how can it be believed that such a vast
universe has come into existence on its own, and
that it has no Creator? In his autobiography, John
Stuart Mill, observed that his father had impressed
upon him from the first, that the manner in which
