God Arises
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relationship that happened to work. Perhaps
here, more than any place else, man is
learning that God works by principles that He
established with the creation of life
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From this, one can understand the actual value of
modern discoveries. Science and technology having
vastly increased the practicability and precision of
human observation, it has been possible to deduce
the natural laws that bind the universe and
according to which it functions to perfection. For
instance, in ancient times, man simply knew that
drops of water fell out of the clouds on to the earth.
But now the whole process of rainfall is widely
understood, from the evaporation of sea-water to
the precipitation of rain and the final journeying of
the fresh water back to the sea. But the kind of
understanding brought by these discoveries is
nothing but the possession of more highly detailed
information, which does not tell us ultimately why
these physical processes take place. Science does not
tell us how or why the laws of nature came into
being, how or why they continue to exist or why
they cause the earth and the heavens to function
with such unfailing precision that, simply by
