Faith in God

Bones are brought into being, which assume the form of a significant structure. Then, a layer of flesh is put on this structure, which is covered by a layer of skin. Hair and nails are made to develop. Blood vessels are laid out throughout the body. In this way, through a seemingly self-operating process, an amazing being called ‘man’ is formed who walks, who holds, who sees, who hears, who tastes, who thinks, who acts, who remembers, who acquires information, who writes, who speaks, and so on. For such an amazing existence to emerge from lifeless matter, as it were, is such an amazing event that even the word ‘miracle’ is insufficient to describe how mindboggling it truly is. If a person were to say that he has heard mud speak and see a stone walk, people would be amazed. They would hardly believe him. But the external form of a human being, who speaks and who moves about, is, after all, just mud-andstones, as it were. The components of his physical body are quite the same as that of mud and stones. We would think it would be astounding to hear mud and stones speaking and walking somewhere, but the creature called’ man would be even more astonishing. For human life and consciousness to be produced in ‘lifeless’ matter—in mere ‘mud’ and ‘stones’ as it were—is this not evidence that there is a superior Being, Who, with His extraordinary power, has brought about this amazing miracle? People ask for miraculous proof to accept God and God’s message for humankind. But what other miracle do people require than all the many miracles already in the universe? If such miracles are not enough for man to bow down before