God Arises
The Method of Argument
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To all intents and purpose, the blacksmith had
conducted an experiment and had arrived at the
truth. We must obviously be extremely wary of
activities which are said to be experiments and
which are, therefore, supposed to produce correct
results.
We must also be wary of incomplete or inadequate
observation. In the days before high-powered
telescopes had been developed, ordinary telescopes
revealed distant clusters of heavenly bodies as
masses of diffused light. On the basis of such
observation, a theory was advanced that those
heavenly bodies were actually gaseous clouds
undergoing a formative process, which could turn
them into stars. But when these bodies were
observed later through more powerful telescopes, it
was noticed that what had initially appeared as
luminous clouds was, in fact, a whole galaxy of
completely formed stars which had obviously only
appeared gaseous in composition because of its
enormous distance form the earth.
It may not be possible to prove the existence of God
by observing Him through a telescope, but it should
