God Arises
Review
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observing of them, it was possible to establish
immutable scientific laws. The claim that by
learning the laws of nature one could arrive at an
explanation of the universe was a mere delusion. It
provided an answer to the question, but it was an
irrelevant one in that it accepted the intermediary
physical links in the chain as primary causes. As
Cecil Boyce Hamann so aptly says, ‘Nature does not
explain, she is herself in need of an explanation’.
‘Why is blood red in colour?’ If you were to ask a
doctor the reason, he would answer, ‘Because your
blood contains millions of little red discs (5 millions
to each cubic centimeter), each some seven
thousandths of an inch in diameter, called the red
corpuscles.
‘Yes, but why are these discs red?’
‘Because they contain a substance called
haemoglobin, which, when it absorbs oxygen from
the lungs, becomes bright red. That is why the
blood in the arteries is scarlet. As it flows through
the body, the blood gives up its oxygen to the
organs of the body and the haemoglobin becomes
brownish—this is the dark blood of the veins.’
