NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 153 ~ beneficence—a testimony to the fact that the good and pleasure are as much a concern of Divine Intelligence as the immutable laws of Nature. Look around you at the exceptions and deviations that do, in fact, defy the laws of cold rationality. Take, for example, water. From its formula weight of 18, one would predict it would be a gas at ordinary temperatures and pressures. Ammonia—with a formula weight of 17—is a gas at temperatures as low as minus 33°C at atmospheric pressure. Hydrogen sulphide, closely related to water by position in the periodic table and with a formula weight of 34, is a gas at temperatures down to minus 59°C. The fact that water exists as a liquid at all, at ordinary temperatures, is something to make one stop and think.12 “On August 11, 1999, there will be a solar eclipse that will be completely visible at Cornwall.” This is not a prediction based simply on conjecture. We know from calculations based on our observations of the solar system’s functioning that