Religion and Science
3. The Mechanical Interpretation of the Universe
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one another and been destroyed in the process?
Was the original motion
of necessity
an evolutionary
process, rather than just a simple movement? And
was it essential that with this astonishing continuity
the present universe should have been brought into
existence? What was the logic, after all, which made
the stars, after they were formed, move through the
vastness of space with such perfect precision and
regularity? And what was the logic, which brought
about the formation of the solar system in a far
corner of the universe? What was the logic, which
was responsible for those extraordinary changes in
our earth, which enabled life to begin and then
survive? And it should be borne in mind that these
transformations that occurred on earth have not
been found replicated in any other place in the vast,
countless worlds in the universe. Then what was
that unique logic which caused life to grow from
lifeless matter? Is there, in fact, any reasonable
explanation of how life came into existence on earth
and how, extraordinarily, the tendency developed
to evolve continuously?
Then again, what was the logic, which created all
those astounding things in this speck of the
