God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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with that special kind of accident which calls
planetary systems into being.
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But one of the greatest of our contemporary
physicists, Sir Fred Hoyle, asks if it is at all possible
that chance could operate on such a large scale, and
answers emphatically in the negative. As he puts it
in his book,
The Intelligent Universe
:
‘The Universe, as observed by astronomers, would
not be large enough to hold the monkeys needed to
write even one scene from Shakespeare, or to hold
their typewriters, and certainly not the wastepaper
baskets needed for the rubbish they would type.’
None of our sciences, up till now, has unearthed
any such “chance occurrence” as could have
accounted for such a great, meaningful and
permanent phenomenon as the universe. Of course,
there are certain random happenings which do
explain certain aspects of nature. For instance, a
gust of wind sometimes carries away pollen grains
from a red-coloured rose and, with them, pollinates
the stigma of a white-coloured rose. This cross-
pollination produces pink-coloured roses. But such
an incident is only a minor event in the entire
