Adapted from the article with the same title in the book "Getting the Most out of Life"
I marvel at the complexities in the advancements of the scientific age, yet the uniqueness of nature make known the handiwork of a great Creator.
In the article, A. Cressy Morrison pointed out his reasons and examples for being aware of God's presence:
First: By answering mathematical law we can prove that our universe was designed and executed by a great engineering Intelligence.
Some examples he gave will establish that there is not one chance in millions that life on our planet is an accident. The earth's distance from the sun is just enough to warm it. The slant of the earth, tilted at 23 degrees, gives our seasons; if it had not been so tilted, vapors from the ocean would move north and south, piling up for us continent of ice. If the crust of the earth had been only ten feet thicker, there would be no oxygen, without which animal life must die. Or if our atmosphere had been thinner, some of the meteors, now burned in space by millions everyday, would be striking all parts of the earth, setting fires everywhere.
Are you not amazed in the intricate structure of atoms and the ways they are arranged to form the biomolecules?
Second: The resourcefulness of life to accomplish its purpose is a manifestation of all-prevailing Intelligence.
He explained that life, the sculptor, shapes all living things; an artist, it designs every leaf of every tree, and colors every flower. Life is a musician and has taught every bird to sing its love songs, the insects to call each other in the multitude of sounds. Life is a chemist, giving taste to fruits and spices, and perfume to the rose, changing water and carbon dioxide to sugar and wood, and in so doing, releasing oxygen that animals may have the breath of life.
Third: An animal wisdom speaks irresistibly of a good Creator who infused instinct into otherwise helpless little creatures.
He pondered on the mystery of what brings the young salmon back to his own river, travels up the very side of the river into which flows the tributary where he was born? The little eels, with no apparent means of knowing except that they are in a wilderness of water, nevertheless start back and find their way not only to the very shore from which their parents came but to the rivers, lakes or little ponds- so that each body of water is always populated with eels.
Fourth: Man has something more than instinct- the power of reason.
He justified that there is no need to give details of this point because no other animal has ever left a record of his ability to count ten, or even to understand the meaning of ten. Thanks to the human reason we can contemplate the possibility that we are what we are only because we have received a spark of Universal Intelligence.
Fifth: Provision for all living is revealed in phenomena which we know today but which Darwin
He described the ultramicroscopic genes in the chromosomes, found in every living cell are the absolute keys to all human, animal and vegetable characteristics. How do genes lock up all the normal heredity of a multitude of ancestors and preserve the psychology of each in such an infinitely small space? How this gene absolutely rule all life on earth is an example of profound cunning and provision that could emanate only from a Creative Intelligence; no other hypothesis will serve.
Sixth: By the economy of nature, we are forced to realize that only infinite wisdom could have foreseen and prepared with such astute husbandry.
Checks and balances in nature have been universally provided! He gave details of the relationship between the insects and a species of cactus. The cactus thrived and proliferated in Australia
Think of nature which can exist on its own with all the cycles of matter in place. It is only some of man's activities which upset the balance in nature.
Seven: The fact that man can conceive the idea of God is in itself a unique proof.
Morrison was strong in his faith as he concluded that the conception of God rises from a divine faculty of man, unshared with the rest of our world-the faculty we call imagination. By its power, man and man alone can find the evidence of things unseen. Indeed, man's perfected imagination becomes a spiritual reality, that God is everywhere and in everything but nowhere so close as in our hearts.
Yes, one can truly affirm God's omnipotence and goodness in lines of the poem…
All things bright and beautiful the Lord God made them all!
