God Arises
The Method of Argument
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be remembered that we do base our arguments for
His existence on the meaningfulness and design of
the visible universe. Claude M. Hathaway, the
designer of the “electric brain” for the U.S. National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics at Langley
Field writes in an essay entitled “The Great
Designer” of what he thinks of the rational bases of
his belief in a supernatural God. He states, most
pertinently that “design requires a designer.” As an
engineer he had learned to appraise order and to
appreciate the difficulties associated with design
which brings together the forces, materials and laws
of Nature in such a way as to accomplish a desired
objective. He had, in short, learned to appreciate the
problem of design by being faced with the problems
of design.
It was my job, several years ago, to design an
electric computer that would rapidly solve
some complicated equations encountered in
two-dimensional stress theory. This problem
was solved by an assembly of hundreds of
vacuum tubes, electro-mechanical devices,
and complicated circuitry, and the completed
“brain”, in a cabinet about the size of three
