2. THE CONCEPT OF MONOTHEISM

~ 23 ~ Ian Roxburgh, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Queen Mary College, London, observes: ‘The universe is astonishingly uniform. No matter which way we look, the universe has the same constituents in the same proportions. The laws of physics discovered on earth contain arbitrary numbers, like the ratio of an electron to the mass of a proton, which is roughly 1840 to one. But these turn out to be the same in all places at all times. Did a creator arbitrarily choose these numbers? Or must these numbers have the particular uniform value we observe for the universe to exist?’1 1. The Sunday Times, London, December 4, 1977; further details in the paper, ‘The Cosmic Mystery’ in the Encyclopaedia of Ignorance by Ronald Duncan and Weston Smith, Oxford, Pergamon, 1978, pp. 37- 45. This fact clearly indicates that the universe is forever under the control of a supreme being – its Creator and Sovereign: God. ‘If there is a God, why is He not visible to us?’ This is a question often put by atheists and