T h e r e  I s  N o  G o d ? 

                         Condensed from Miami Herald
                                 Jim Bishop


Jim Bishop, popular author of 21 books, including "The Day Christ Died" and 
"The Day Kennedy Was Shot," died in 1987.  This column, written in the 
1960s, was a favorite of his wife Kelly.


THERE IS NO GOD.  All of the wonders around us are accidental.  No almighty 
hand made a thousand-billion 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 young crops in farms below to drink?  A very 
lovely accident.


The human heart will beat for 70 or 80 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 does it know one from the other?


Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words, and a brain to 
understand them, 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?          

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