NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 140 ~ a mutual attraction. But he had no answer to the question, ‘Why do bodies attract one another?’ He himself confessed to having failed to offer any explanation for this. On this point, A.N. Whitehead, the noted American mathematician and philosopher, says: By admitting this fact, Newton has expressed a great philosophical truth, that is, if nature is inanimate, it can give no explanation to us, just as a dead man cannot narrate any incident. All rational and logical explanations are ultimately the expression of a purpose, wshereas no ontology can be ascribed to a dead universe.’8 To the words of Whitehead, we might well add the query that if the universe is not under the supervision of any intelligent mind, how is it then invested with such profound meaningfulness? The earth completes one rotation on its axis in twentyfour hours. In other words, it is rotating on its axis at a speed of one thousand miles per hour. Suppose its speed were reduced to two hundred miles per hour—which is quite possible, our days and nights