God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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towns and villages, and destroyed their farms,
making cultivation impossible. No device
which the people discovered could stop its
spread. Australia was in danger of being
overwhelmed by a silent, uncontrollable,
advancing
army
of
vegetation.
The
entomologists scoured the world and finally
found an insect which lived exclusively on
cactus, would eat nothing else, would breed
freely, and which had no enemies in
Australia. Here the animal conquered the
vegetation and today the cactus pest has
retreated, and with it all but a small protective
residue of the insects, enough to hold the
cactus in check forever.
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Can such a great scheme of checks and balances, as
is found in Nature, develop without any deliberate
planning?
Consider the marvellous mathematical exactitude
which is to be found in the universe. The behaviour
of even inanimate matter is not in any way
haphazard: on the contrary, it “obeys” definite
“natural laws”. No matter in which corner of the
