God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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the world came into existence was a subject on
which nothing was known: that the question “Who
made me?” cannot be answered, because we have
no experience or authentic information from which
to answer it, and that any answer only throws the
difficulty a step further back, since the question
immediately presents itself, “who made God?”
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This is an old argument much relied upon by
atheists, its implication being that if we do accept
that there is a Creator of the universe, we shall be
compelled to accept this Creator as being eternal.
And when God has to be regarded as eternal, why
should not the universe itself be regarded as eternal
instead? Although such a conclusion is absolutely
meaningless,—because no such attribute of the
universe has come to light, so far, to justify the
conclusion that the universe has come into existence
of its own accord—up till the nineteenth century,
this misleading argument of the atheists was
regarded as the most attractive one. But now, with
the discovery of the second law of the
thermodynamics, this argument has lost its validity.
Thermodynamics is a branch of science, which deals
with energy transformation. In particular, it shows
