There is no ambiguity in the evidence. So far as modern science
can throw light on the question, there must have been a real Creation of
the materials of which our world is composed, a Creation wholly
different both in kind and in degree from any process now going on.
IV
A supposed objection has been raised to this view, based on the vastness
of the universe as we now know it. Whether or not the universe is really
infinite in extent, it is certainly of an extent that is practically
infinite, so far as our powers of observation or of reasoning are
concerned. But this practically infinite universe is not a bit harder to
account for than would be a definitely limited universe, say of the size
of our solar system. If the spectroscope shows that the far distant
parts of the universe contain many of the same elements as are found in
our solar system, we need not be surprised, since all are alike the
work of the same Creator. Nor would this fact that the universe seems to
be composed of similar materials throughout tend in any way to prove
that all these parts of the universe were brought into existence at the
same time, nor yet that our solar system was refashioned out of some of
the common stock of the universe already on hand, as the nebular
hypothesis supposes.
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