God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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perpetual motion. The diameter of this entire cluster
is 2 million light years.
Over and above all these revolutions, another kind
of movement is going on, i.e. the whole universe is
expanding in all directions just like a balloon.
Rotating with an incredible rapidity, at a speed of
12 miles per second, our own Sun is continuously
whirling away towards the outer margin of its
galaxy, carrying all the members of the solar system
with it. Similarly, in perpetual rotation, all the stars
are moving away in one direction or the other at
tremendous speeds—some at eight, some at 33 and
some at 84 miles per second.
The amazing part is that all of this motion is going
on with a remarkable organization and regularity.
Neither do the stars collide, nor does their speed
alter. The rotation of our earth around the sun is a
model of regularity. Likewise, its rotation on its
own axis is so precise in timing that there has not
been a discrepancy of even a second over the
centuries. The moon, the earth’s satellite, similarly
hardly strays from its orbit by so much as a hair’s
breadth, there being only a minuscule deviation in
