Our God — Page 53
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 53 scarcely visible seed: hundreds of thousands of which can be held in a fistful, but when sowed in the soil, it grows into a mag- nificent tree before our eyes and thousands of people may rest under its shade. And have you studied human life? There was a time when man was a part of his father’s body in the form of a tiny microscopic sperm, which might not be agreeable for a delicately disposed person to even look at, and then it develops into a handsome and attractive being, who is equipped with the highest faculties of heart and mind. Let us now look toward the sky. What a scene do the sun, the moon, and the stars present before you. Take the sun: Do you know how far it is from the earth? Its distance from the earth is approximately ninety-three million miles. And let it be no sur- prise when I say that the sun is one of those stars that is compar- atively nearer to the earth. Some of the stars are so far away from the earth that your language does not even specify the numbers to express that distance. Do you know the volume of the sun? Let me inform you of this too. We take pride in the earth’s vastness; due to its great vastness it looks flat in spite of being round; it has a diameter of 7,900 miles. By comparison, the sun has a diameter of 865,000 miles. Let it not be surprising when I say that there are many planets in space which are vastly bigger than our sun; there cannot be a comparison between these—not even as much as the robin compares with the eagle. So much for the physical form of the celestial bodies; but if we study the magnificent system, in accordance with which tril- lions of these bodies orbit in space, the mind boggles. To top it all, each planet orbits along its own circuit in accordance with its own rules and it is impossible for one to collide with the other or leave