God Arises
The Method of Argument
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but in its application. When correctly applied, the
result will confound the anti-religionists.
Scientists and materialists should stop and think
that they cannot move forward by so much as an
inch without using terms like force, energy, nature,
laws of nature, etc. But do any of them
know
what
force is, or what nature is? The maximum that
scientists have managed to contribute is an
interpretative vocabulary by which the invisible
causes—unknown and unknowable—of certain
known occurrences and manifestations may be
referred to. For instance, the electron is
unobservable. It is so tiny that neither can a
microscope show it, nor a weighing scale weigh it.
Yet, in the world of science, the existence of the
electron is considered a reality. This is because
although the electron itself is not visible, some of its
effects
repeatedly come within our experience, and
no explanation can be found for them other than the
existence of a system like that of the electron. The
electron is a supposition, but since the basis of this
supposition is indirect observation, science must
concede that it exists.
