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There is no God?

Article Summary by: archan     

Original Author: Jim Bishop
            There is no God. All the wonders around us are accidental.
No almighty hand made a hundred thousand million 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. Infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt. A small flower invented itself so that we could extract digitalis for sick hearts.
            The Earth gave itself day and night, tilted itself so that we could get seasons. Without the magnetic poles man would be unable to navigate the trackless oceans of water and air, but they just grew there.
            How about the sugar thermostats in the pancreas? It maintains a level of sugar in the blood sufficient for energy. Without it all of us will fall into a coma and die.
           Why does snow sit on mountain-tops waiting for the warm spring Sun to melt it at just the right time for the young crops in the farms below to drink? A very lovely accident, indeed.
           A human heart will beat for 70 - 80 years without faltering, how does it get sufficient rest in between the beats? A kidney will filter poision from the blood and leave the good things alone. How does it know one from the other?
           Who gave the human tongue the flexibility to form words, and a brain to understand them, but denied it to other animals?
          Who showed the womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting a tiny ovam until, in time, a baby would have a proper number of fingers, eyes, ears and hair in the right places, and be strong enough to sustain life?  And Yet.......
.........There is no God ??  
Published: January 29, 2008
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