God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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perpetual darkness at the North and South Poles,
the oceanic vapours would have travelled
northwards and the earth’s surface would have
been covered in either glaciers or deserts—to
describe but a few of the adverse effects. This would
have rendered the survival of life on earth
impossible. One can go on endlessly imagining
different sets of physical circumstances which could
have precluded or destroyed human existence. It is
unthinkable then, that, the perfect conditions for
man to come into existence on earth were simply
self-generating and had no origin in divine
inspiration.
If we think of what conditions were like at the time
of the formation of the earth, it seems all the more
miraculous that life could come into being at all.
Isaac Asimov has painted a fearsome picture of the
beginning of things. Correcting the earlier
hypothesis in favour, at the beginning of this
century, he writes:
Currently, scientists are convinced the earth
and the other planets did not form from the
sun, but were formed of particles coming
