God Arises
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modern minds have a sort of bias in favour of the
materialistic explanation of the facts’ (p. 189).
In his book,
Witness
, Whittacker Chambers tells of
how he was watching his little daughter one day,
when he found that he had unconsciously become
aware of the shape of her ear. He thought to himself
how impossible it was that such delicate
convolutions could have come about by chance.
They could have been created only by premeditated
design. But he pushed this thought out of his
agnostic mind, because he realized that the next
step in logical sequence would have to be: design
presupposes God—a thesis he was not yet ready to
accept. With reference to this incident, Thomas
David Park, a research chemist, formerly Chairman
of the Department of Chemistry, Stanford Research
Institute, writes: ‘I have known many scientists
among my professors and research colleagues, who
have similar thoughts about observed facts in
chemistry and physics.
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‘Scientists’ of the ‘Modern’ age are agreed upon the
theory of evolution. This concept is becoming
dominant in all scientific fields. An enchanting idol
