God Arises
Challenge of Modern Knowledge
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Atheists maintain that the progress of science and
the expansion of knowledge had enabled man to
observe that which was beyond his observation in
the past. Being in the dark about chains of events,
we had not been in a position to understand
isolated events. Now, equipped with knowledge,
we no longer stood in awe of natural phenomena.
For instance, the rising and setting of the sun are
now understood as matters of common knowledge.
But, in early times, these events seemed
inexplicable, and man supposed that there must be
a God who was responsible for them. This led to the
acceptance of there being a supernatural power: he
described whatever was beyond man’s knowledge
as a miracle wrought by that power. But now that
we know the rising and setting of the sun is the
result of the earth’s revolving upon its axis, where is
the need to believe that there is a God who makes
the sunrise and set? Similarly, the functioning of all
other things, which had been attributed to some
invisible power, purported, according to modern
studies, to result from the action and interaction of
the natural forces now known to us. That is, after
the revelation of natural causes, the need to posit,
and to believe in the existence of God, or a
