God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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a mutual attraction. But he had no answer to the
question, ‘Why do bodies attract one another?’ He
himself confessed to having failed to offer any
explanation for this. On this point, A.N. Whitehead,
the
noted
American
mathematician
and
philosopher, says:
By admitting this fact, Newton has expressed
a great philosophical truth, that is, if nature is
inanimate, it can give no explanation to us,
just as a dead man cannot narrate any
incident. All rational and logical explanations
are ultimately the expression of a purpose,
wshereas no ontology can be ascribed to a
dead universe.’
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To the words of Whitehead, we might well add the
query that if the universe is not under the
supervision of any intelligent mind, how is it then
invested with such profound meaningfulness? The
earth completes one rotation on its axis in twenty-
four hours. In other words, it is rotating on its axis
at a speed of one thousand miles per hour. Suppose
its speed were reduced to two hundred miles per
hour—which is quite possible, our days and nights
