God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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beneficence—a testimony to the fact that the
good and pleasure are as much a concern of
Divine Intelligence as the immutable laws of
Nature. Look around you at the exceptions
and deviations that do, in fact, defy the laws
of cold rationality.
Take, for example, water. From its formula
weight of 18, one would predict it would be a
gas at ordinary temperatures and pressures.
Ammonia—with a formula weight of 17—is a
gas at temperatures as low as minus 33°C at
atmospheric pressure. Hydrogen sulphide,
closely related to water by position in the
periodic table and with a formula weight of
34, is a gas at temperatures down to minus
59°C. The fact that water exists as a liquid at
all, at ordinary temperatures, is something to
make one stop and think.
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“On August 11, 1999, there will be a solar eclipse
that will be completely visible at Cornwall.”
This is not a prediction based simply on conjecture.
We know from calculations based on our
observations of the solar system’s functioning that
