NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 160 ~ with that special kind of accident which calls planetary systems into being.15 But one of the greatest of our contemporary physicists, Sir Fred Hoyle, asks if it is at all possible that chance could operate on such a large scale, and answers emphatically in the negative. As he puts it in his book, The Intelligent Universe: ‘The Universe, as observed by astronomers, would not be large enough to hold the monkeys needed to write even one scene from Shakespeare, or to hold their typewriters, and certainly not the wastepaper baskets needed for the rubbish they would type.’ None of our sciences, up till now, has unearthed any such “chance occurrence” as could have accounted for such a great, meaningful and permanent phenomenon as the universe. Of course, there are certain random happenings which do explain certain aspects of nature. For instance, a gust of wind sometimes carries away pollen grains from a red-coloured rose and, with them, pollinates the stigma of a white-coloured rose. This crosspollination produces pink-coloured roses. But such an incident is only a minor event in the entire