The Nature of Life and Death

can do is look on in wonder, and ask ourselves: “Besides God, who could have made manifest such a miracle?” Miracles all around us Everything in this world is made up of atoms. In its final analysis, every object is a collection of these tiny par­ticles. Yet by some strange miracle, when these atoms come together in certain proportions, they form the dazzling globe of the sun, and when the same atoms accumulate elsewhere in different proportions they flow in cascades: in yet other places, they take the form of subtle breezes or are fashioned into fertile soil. All these things may be made up of the same atoms, but the nature and properties of each separate object are widely different. This miraculous world provides man with endless resources which he puts to good use whenever he learns how to tap On all sides of us, a whole world of miraculous diversity and proportions stretches out before our eyes. Yet if all of the human beings in this world were to come together, they would not be able to create even one tiny grain of sand.