A Scientist Believes in God

Dr. Morrison, former president of the New York Academy of Sciences, lists in his book "Man Does Not Stand Alone" seven reasons for belief in God.

First, by unwavering mathematical law we can prove that our Universe was designed and executed by a great engineering Intelligence.

Second, the resourcefulness of life to accomplish its purpose is a manifestation of all pervading Intelligence. Life itself is fathomless. A growing root will crack a rock. . . .

Thirdly, animal wisdom speaks irresistibly of a good creator who infused instinct in otherwise helpless creatures. Thus at maturity millions of eels will migrate from all ponds and rivers everywhere, all bound for the same abysmal deeps near Bermuda.

Fourthly, man has something more than animal instinct—the power to reason. So no other animal has ever left a record of its ability to count to ten, or even to understand the meaning of ten.

Fifthly, provision for all living beings is revealed in the phenomena such as the wonders of "genes". So unspeakably tiny are these genes that if all those responsible for all the living in the world could be put in one place there would be less than a thimbleful of genes provides the absolute key to all human characteristics.

Sixthly, by the economy of nature, we are forced to realise that only infinite wisdom could have forseen and prepared with such astute husbandry. Why have not fast-breeding insects dominated the world? Because they have no lungs as man possesses they breathe through tubes. But when insects grow large, their tubes do not grow in ration to the increasing size of the body.

Seventhly, the fact that man can conceive the idea of God is in itself a unique proof. The conception of God rises from a divine faculty of man, unshared with the rest of our world—the faculty we call our imagination. By its power man, and man alone, can find the evidence of things unseen.

Truly it is said that "the Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork."

—From "the Precious Secret" by Fulton Oursler.