God Arises
Review
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REVIEW
An account has been given in the preceding pages
of those anti-religionist arguments which are
generally put forward in order to prove that
modernity leaves no room for religion.
Let us first examine the argument which is based on
research carried out in the field of the physical
sciences, i.e. that studies of the universe have
shown that whatever events take place do so in
accordance with specific laws of nature. This
argument would have it that there is no necessity to
assume the existence of an unknown God in order
to explain these events, since known laws already
exist to explain them. The best answer to this
argument is the one given by a Christian
theologian: ‘Nature is a fact, not an explanation’.
Physicists, of course, are right in saying that they
have discovered the laws of nature, but what they
have discovered is not, in essence, the answer to the
problems for whose solution religion has come into
existence. It is religion, which points towards the
real causes of the creation of the universe, whereas
