God Arises
The Method of Argument
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inference, and not by direct observation that I can
grasp the fact that each molecule of water is
composed of two atoms of hydrogen and one of
oxygen.
A.E. Mander, in his book
Clearer Thinking
, observes
with great pertinence:
It is useful to reflect that, if we were equipped
with different senses, all that we now perceive
would be unknowable to us by direct
perception. For example, if our eyes were as
powerful as a microscope, we should be able
to see bacteria. But we could not then perceive
elephants. We should be obliged to infer their
existence.
Similarly, we now perceive the phenomena,
which, being of wavelengths lying within
certain limits, are registered by our sense of
sight. There are millions of facts we see. Yet if
our eyes were differently constructed so that
they were turned to long wavelengths instead
of very short ones, then we should have direct
sense perceptions of wireless waves, which
now we know only by inference, but we
