There is no God? |
| All of the wonders around us are accidental. No almighty
hand made a thousand billion stars. They made themselves. No power keeps them on their
steady course. The earth spins itself to keep the oceans from falling off towards the sun.
The earth gives itself day and night, tilts itself so that we get seasons. Without
magnetic poles man would be unable to navigate the trackless oceans of water and air, but
they just grew there. The human heart will beat for 70 or 80 years without faltering. How
does it get sufficient rest between beats? A kidney will filter poison from the blood, and
leave good things alone. How does it know one from the other? How about the sugar
thermostat in the pancreas? It maintains a level of sugar in the blood sufficient for
energy; without it, all of us would fall into a coma and die. Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words - and a brain to understand them - but denied this to all other animals? Do infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt? Who showed a womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting a tiny fertilized ovum until, in time, a baby would have the proper number of fingers, eyes, ears and hair in the right places and come into the world when it is strong enough to sustain life? There is no God? JIM BISHOP Copyright 1966 by Jim Bishop, Miami Herald |