God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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simply mushroomed all by itself on a particular
date.
Studies in astronomy show that the number of stars
in the sky is as numerous as all of the sand grains
on all the sea-shores of our planet, many of the stars
being vastly greater in size than our earth, some
even being of such enormous girth that they could
accommodate hundreds of thousands of earths
inside them and still have room to spare. A few of
them are even big enough to contain millions and
millions of earths. The universe is so vast that an
aeroplane flying at the greatest speed imaginable,
i.e. at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second),
would take about ten billion years to complete just a
single trip around the whole universe. Even with
such a huge circumference, this universe is not
static, but is expanding every moment in all
directions. So rapid is this expansion that, according
to an estimate by Eddington5, every 1300 million
years, all the distances in this universe are doubled.
This means that even our imaginary aeroplane
travelling at the speed of light would not ever be
able to fly all the way around the universe, because
it would never be able to catch up with this
