NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 149 ~ canopy were eventually filled. Tulip trees were already there, waiting for just such openings as would provide sufficient light for that shadeintolerant species to develop. Up till then, these trees had been minor denizens of the forest, only occasionally developing into valuable timber trees. Now, chestnut trees are hardly missed where dense groves of tulip trees have become established, these often growing as much as one inch in diameter and six feet in height per year; as well as their growth being rapid, their wood is of superior quality. Can we, in all conscience, say that the master plan of nature is merely a set of accidental circumstances? In the present century, too, a crisis of a different but more alarming nature developed in Australia when a certain species of cactus was grown on an extensive scale to provide fencing for the fields. Cressy Morrison writes: The cactus had not insect enemies in Australia and soon began a prodigious growth. The march of the cactus persisted until it had covered an area approximately as great as England, crowded the inhabitants out of the