NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 136 ~ the surface, and the power of releasing great quantities of heat as it freezes, —preserve life in oceans, lakes and rivers throughout the long winters. The dry land is a stable platform for much terrestrial life. The soil provides the minerals which plant life assimilates and transforms into needful foods for animals. The presence of metals near the surface renders the arts of civilisation possible. Surely Prophet Isaiah is right (45:18 R.S.V.) in saying of God: ‘He did not make it chaos: He formed it to be inhabited.’ The diminutive size of the earth compared with the immensity of space is sometimes disparagingly referred to. If the earth were as small as the moon, i.e. one-fourth of its present diameter, the force of gravity (one sixth that of the earth) would fail to hold both atmosphere and water, and temperatures would be fatally extreme. If double its present diameter, the enlarged earth would have four times its present surface and twice its force of