GOD??

There is no GOD.  All the wonders around us are accidental.  No almighty
hand made a thousand-billions stars.  They made themselves.  No power keeps
them on their steady course.  The earth spins itself to keep the oceans from
falling off toward the sun.  Infants teach themselves to cry when they are
hungry or hurt.  A small flower invented itself so that we could extract
digitalis for sick hearts.
     The earth gave itself day and night, tilted itself so that we get
seasons.  Without the magnetic poles man would be unable to navigate the
trackless oceans of water and air, but they just grew there.

     How about the sugar thermostat in the pancreas?  It maintains a level
of sugar in the blood sufficient for energy.  Without it, all of us would
fall into a coma and die.

     Why does snow sit on mountain tops waiting for the warm spring sun to
melt it at just the right time for the young crops in farms below to drink?
A very lovely accident.

     The human heart will beat for 70 or 80s years without faltering.  How
does it get sufficient rest between beats?  A kidney will filter poison from
the blood, and leave good things alone.  How dies it know one thing from the
other?

    Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words, and a brain to
understand those words, but denied it to all other animals?

    Who showed a womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting
a tiny ovum until, in time, a baby would have the proper number of fingers,
eyes, and ears and hair in the right places, and come into the world when it
is strong enough to sustain life?

     There is no GOD?



Jim Bishop is the author for "The Day Kenedy was Shot," and "The Day Christ
Died."  He died in 1987.  He wrote this article in the 60s.