God Arises
Review
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nature—a ‘miracle’ of the unconscious? It is
possible to accept incoherence in sleeping and in
waking as the result of mental disturbance, but to
assert that this is the true source of divine revelation
is to descend to illogical and unscientific argument.
It merely shows that those who reason in this way
are hard put to find any other criterion by which to
judge the extraordinary words of the prophets. It
does not follow that because agnostics possess only
one yardstick by which to measure reality, there
exists, de facto, one and only one such yardstick.
Let us suppose that a group of creatures, who
possessed the faculty of hearing, but not that of
speech, landed on earth from a distant planet. On
hearing the conversation and discourses of human
beings they started to investigate sound. What was
it, and where did it come from? In the course of
their research, they came across a tree whose
branches, being interlocked, produced grating,
squeaking noises because of the friction accidentally
created by sudden, squally winds. As soon as the
wind stopped blowing, the noise stopped too. This
phenomenon was repeated with each gust of wind.
Now an ‘expert’ from amongst them, on careful
