God Arises
Review
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‘Yes. But where do the red corpuscles with their
haemoglobin come from?’
‘They are made in the spleen.’
‘That’s marvellous, Doctor. But tell me, how is it
that the blood, the red corpuscles, the spleen, and
the thousand other things are so organised into one
coherent whole, work together so perfectly that I
can breathe, run, speak, live?’
‘Ah! That is nature.’
‘Nature!’
‘When I say ‘‘nature”, I mean the interplay of blind
physical and chemical forces.’
‘But, Doctor, why do these blind forces always act
as if they were pursuing a definite end? How do
they manage to coordinate their activities so as to
produce a bird which flies, a fish which swims, and
me…. who ask questions?’.
‘My dear friend, I a scientist, can tell you how these
things happen. Do not ask me why they are like
that.’
