God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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interpretation of their significance. They do not
glimpse, even fleetingly, an Organizer and
Sustainer in this universe. On the contrary, they
hold that life on earth and the existence of the
universe are simply chance occurrences. As T.H.
Huxley puts it:
Six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on
typewriters for millions of millions of years,
would be bound in time to write all books in
the British Museum. If we examined the last
page, which a particular monkey had typed,
and found that it had chanced, in its blind
strumming, to type a Shakespeare Sonnet, we
should rightly regard the occurrence as a
remarkable accident, but if we looked through
all the millions of papers the monkey had
turned out in untold millions of years, we
might be sure of finding a Shakespeare Sonnet
somewhere amongst them, the product of the
blind play of Chance. In the same way,
millions of millions of stars wandering blindly
through space for millions of millions of years
are bound to meet with every kind of
accident; a limited number are bound to meet
