God Arises
Review
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off a few days later. This observation, from the
point of view of the anti-religionists, contradicts the
old concept that it is God who brings the chick out
of the shell, because the microscope has clearly
shown that a 21-day law exists which is responsible
for creating conditions which make it possible for
the chick to emerge from the shell. This is a mere
fallacy. What modern observation has done is to
add a few more links to the chain of factors which
lead up to an event. It does not tell us the real cause
of the occurrence. It has just shifted the problem of
the breaking up of the shell to the development of
the horn. The breaking of the shell by the chick is
simply an intermediate stage in the occurrence
rather than its cause. Will the cause of the event be
understood only when we learn what made the
horn appear on the chick’s beak? In other words,
when we have traced the event back to its primary
cause, the cause which ‘knew’ that the chick
required some hard instrument to break through
the shell and, therefore, in exactly twenty-one days,
compelled a hard substance to appear on the beak
in the form of a horn and to fall off after having
discharged its function?
