NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 152 ~ enquiry futile. Thomas Parks, a research chemist, writes: One of the first things a freshman chemistry student learns is the periodicity or order found in the elements. This order has been variously described and classified, but we usually credit Mendeleev, the Russian chemist of the last century with our periodic table. Not only did this arrangement provide a means of studying the known elements and their compounds, but it also gave impetus to the search for those elements which had not yet been discovered. Their very existence was postulated by vacant spaces in the orderly arrangement of the table. Chemists today still use the periodic table to aid them in their study of reactions and to predict properties of unknown or new compounds. That they have been successful is sound testimony to the fact that a beautiful order exists in the inorganic world. But the order we see around us is not a relentless omnipotence. It is tempered with