222 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



universe so vast that light traveling 186,000 miles a 

 second consumes 100,000 years in making one trip. 

 Even more remote are other universes at distances so 

 vast that their light takes a million years to come to 

 earth. 



Mankind did not always reason thus. Once man 

 took the sky at its face value, for what it was to him 

 as it met his upward gaze. The azure blue of day 

 was but a canopy of heaven supported just beyond 

 the horizon on some mysterious pillars of the gods. 

 The sun itself ran its daily journey from east to west, 

 moved by the spirit of the Creator. The stars came 

 out like street lamps lighted by the angels, to guide 

 and guard man's ways by night. 



To the ancient mind the earth was the stage on 

 which the drama of mankind was being enacted. 

 Thus man, occupying the center of interest, was the 

 chief concern of creation. All else was incidental 

 save for the mystic powers above the veil of heaven 

 we call the sky. Hence, in the story of creation in 

 Genesis how casual is the reference, "the stars also." 

 If an astronomer were rewriting the account, it might 

 read somewhat as follows : From the beginning there 

 have been great stellar universes each so vast that 

 light traveling at the incredible speed of 186,000 

 miles per second takes hundreds of thousands of years 

 to cross it. These universes stream through space at 

 distances so remote from one another that light takes 

 not thousands but even millions of years to pass from 

 one to the other, so that no matter where in such a 

 cosmic scheme one may regard himself he can never 

 learn the true nature of things at any one time. Even 

 were all alike and changing together, the appearance 



