The universe is God’s work
Many years ago, Sir Isaac Newton built a scale model of the Solar System. In its center it had a thick golden sphere that represented the sun, and around it other smaller spheres revolved at the end of rods of different lengths, which represented the different planets then known. A device made up of toothed wheels and transmission belts made them rotate perfectly in sync around the sun.
One day, while Newton was studying the model, he was visited by a friend who did not believe in the biblical explanation of creation. Amazed by such a brilliant mechanism, while watching how the scientist made them advance in their orbits, he exclaimed:
– But what a beauty! Who built it for you?
“No one,” Newton replied without looking up.
– How come no one? – asked the friend.
– That’s right! No one! All these wheels, belts and mechanisms came together by chance, and as if by magic they began to rotate in their orbit at the precise speed.
The unbeliever got the message. It was foolish to suppose that the model had come about accidentally. Even more insane was to accept the theory that the Earth and the infinite universe are the work of chance.
The distinguished astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) on the last page of his “Astronomia Nava” wrote: «Before I get up from this table, on which I have basted all my research, I have only to raise my hands and my eyes to heaven, and address a humble prayer to the author of all light:
Oh You! that, through those you have scattered in nature, you raise our desires to the divine light, so that we may one day be transported to the eternal light of glory. I thank you, Lord and Creator, for all the joys I have felt while contemplating your works. I have written these lines that contain the summary of all my labors, to proclaim to the world the greatness of your works…»
He also said: «The day is near when we will be able to read God in the book of Nature with the same clarity with which we read him in the Holy Scriptures, and joyfully contemplate the harmony of both revelations»
Merrill C. Tenney said: “To claim that a world as complex as the one we inhabit is the product of chance is as illogical as to say that Shakespeare’s dramas were composed by monkeys frolicking in a printing press.”
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British inventor, is known for the absolute temperature scale, for the first transatlantic telegraph cable and for having helped formulate the second law of thermodynamics. Lord Kelvin said “Certainly the beginning of life on Earth is not due to any chemical or electrical phenomenon, nor to any crystalline grouping of molecules. We must stop to contemplate face to face the mystery and the miracle of the creation of living beings.”
Dr. Arthur Compton, Nobel Laureate in Physics, stated: “For me, faith is born from understanding that a Supreme Intelligence created the universe and man. It is not difficult for me to have that faith, because it is undeniable that every plan is the result of intelligence A universe unfolding in order before our eyes corroborates the authenticity of the most majestic statement ever made: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Robert Millikan (1868-1953, Nobel Prize in Physics) commented: Behind every clock there had to be a clockmaker; likewise, behind the intricate precision of this grand universe, there had to be a planner and Creator God!
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