God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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which our life rests. There being not even one
chance in a hundred million that all these elements
should have assembled in such favourable
proportions on any other planet at any one given
time, we have to ask ourselves how it came about
that such freely moving gases formed themselves
into a compound and remained suspended in the
atmosphere in exactly the right proportions to
sustain life. As the noted physicist Morton White
puts it, ‘Science has no explanation to offer for the
facts, and to say it is accidental is to defy
mathematics’.
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We have to concede that there is a formidable array
of facts in this world and the universe, which
cannot be explained unless we admit the
intervention of a superior mind. For instance, the
density of ice is less than that of water, because as it
freezes, its volume increases in relation to its mass.
It is because of this that ice floats instead of sinking
to the bottom of lakes and rivers and gradually
forming a solid mass. On the surface of the water, it
forms a layer of insulation to maintain the water
below at a temperature above freezing point. Fish
and other forms of marine life are thus permitted to
