God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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which to discriminate truth from error, and to
calculate the likelihood of the occurrence of any
particular form of an event.
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Even if we take it for granted that matter, in a crude
form, spontaneously originated in the universe, and
that a chain of voluntary action and reaction is
responsible for creation, (although such an
assumption is baseless) we have no adequate
explanation for the existence of the universe.
Unfortunately for the antagonists of religion, the
same mathematics that provides them with the
golden key of the Law of Chance, rules out the
possibility of the Law of Chance having been the
cause of the present universe, for, in calculating the
age and dimensions of our world, Science shows
that Chance falls far short of explaining the facts. In
a chapter on the uniqueness of our world, from his
book,
Man Does Not Stand Alone
, Cressy Morrison
offers a telling illustration of this point:
Suppose you take ten pennies and mark them
from 1 to 10. Put them in your pocket and
give them a good shake. Now try to draw
