God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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their enormous numbers are at immeasurable
distances from each other and follow their
respective courses, like ships sailing hundreds of
miles apart in the vastness of the oceans. The whole
universe is made of countless constellations, or
galaxies, all of which are in perpetual motion.
The nearest example of such motion is the moon’s
circling of the earth at a distance of 240,000 miles. It
completes each revolution in 29½ days. Similarly,
our earth, at a distance of 95 million miles from the
sun, rotates on its axis at a thousand miles an hour,
and takes one full year to go around the sun.
Besides the earth, there are in the solar system eight
other planets, all of which are continuously
revolving around the sun. Pluto is the farthest away
of all, with an orbit of 75 million miles. All these
planets move on their individual paths with thirty-
one moons in orbit around their respective planets
simultaneously. In addition to these nine planets
and thirty-one moons, a group of thirty thousand
asteroids, thousands of comets and innumerable
meteors also remain perpetually in orbit. The
central place among them is, of course, occupied by
our Sun, which is also a star. Its diameter is 865,000
