God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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The photographic plate of the eye is a small screen
at the back, the retina, on to which the images of the
things we see are focussed. The retina can take 10
direct pictures each second or 800,000 pictures a
day, wiping itself clean after each. It is so ‘fast’ that
30,000 separate points of light can be recorded by a
single square millimetre (the size of a nail head) of
its surface. All the pictures are in vivid colour, with
sharp outlines, and delicate shading; they are,
besides, movies and in 3-dimensions, thanks to the
stereoscopic focus of the two eyes.
The Heart
is a small organ, about the size of the fist,
(4 inches long and 2 ½ inches broad), weighing not
much more than eight ounces, yet this small pump
can work prodigiously. It keeps on pumping day
and night for a whole life-time without the least
pause, rating some 100,000 strokes a day and
sending about a gallon of blood circulating through
the body, once every 13 seconds. In a single day, the
heart pumps enough blood to fill a good-sized oil
truck; in a single year it could fill a train of 65 large
oil wagons.
