God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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from the ocean. Also, there are sea mounts
under the Pacific with flat tops that may have
once been at ocean level but are now
hundreds of feel below.
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Be that as it may, if the oceans had been deeper by
just a few feet more, they would have absorbed all
available carbon dioxide and oxygen, and no
vegetation of any kind could have survived upon
the earth’s surface. If the air in the atmosphere had
been less dense than it is at present, the twenty
million meteors that daily enter it at speeds of about
thirty miles per second, would be crashing down all
over the earth, burning up all combustible matter
and perforating the whole of the earth’s surface.
The heat alone of a meteor travelling 90 times faster
than a bullet would be enough to annihilate so
vulnerable a creature as man. It is thanks to this
atmospheric layer being of an appropriate density
that mankind is safeguarded against these fiery
showers of celestial debris. This density is also
exactly right for solar actinic rays to reach the earth
in such proportions as will promote the growth of
vegetation, destroy harmful bacteria, and make
vitamins available which may be absorbed directly
