That a maker is required for
anything that is made is a lesson Sir Isaac
Newton was able to teach forcefully to an
atheist-scientist friend of his. Sir Isaac had
an accomplished artisan fashion for him a small
scale model of our solar system which was to be
put in a room in Newton’s home when completed.
The assignment was finished and installed on a
large table. The workman had done a very
commendable job, simulating not only the various
sizes of the planets and their relative
proximities, but also so constructing the model
that everything rotated and orbited when a crank
was turned. It was an interesting, even
fascinating work, as you can image, particularly
to anyone schooled in the sciences.
Newton’s atheist-scientist
friend came by for a visit. Seeing the model, he
was naturally intrigued, and proceeded to
examine it with undisguised admiration for the
high quality of the workmanship. ‘My! What an
exquisite thing this is!’ he exclaimed. ‘Who
made it?’ Paying little attention to him, Sir
Isaac answered, ‘Nobody.’
Stopping his inspection, the
visitor turned and said: ‘Evidently you did not
understand my question. I asked who made this."
Newton, enjoying himself immensely no doubt,
replied in a still more serious tone. ‘Nobody.
What you see just happened to assume the form it
now has.’ ‘You must think I am a fool!’ the
visitor retorted heatedly, ‘Of course somebody
made it, and he is a genius, and I would like to
know who he is.’
Newton then spoke to his
friend in a polite yet firm way: ‘This thing is
but a puny imitation of a much grander system
whose laws you know, and I am not able to
convince you that this mere toy is without a
designer and maker; yet you profess to believe
that the great original from which the design is
taken has come into being without either
designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of
reasoning do you reach such an incongruous
conclusion?’
Sir Isaac Newton Solar System
Story (from the book: ‘The Truth: God or
evolution?’ by Marshall and Sandra Hall, Baker
Book House, Grand Rapids, MI)
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