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WORD PAGE NW TRANSLATION PHONETIC PRONUNCIATION(S) agnostoi 75 a·gno'stoi a-gnahs'toi, uh- assimilate 74 uh-si'muh-layt bespeak 83 bi-speek' Buddhism 74 boo'di-zuhm, bu'- chaos 79 kay-ahs Epicurean 74 e-pi-kyur-ree'uhn, -kyur'ee- Epicurus 74 e'-pi-kyur'uhs Fukui 73 fu'ku-ee, fu-ku'ee Hiroshi 83 hee'ro-shee Huxley 75 huhks'lee idiosyncrasy 73 i-dee-uh-sing'kruh-see immunological 82 i-myuh-nuh-lah'ji-kuhl Kenichi 73 ken'ee-chee kimchi 81 kim'chee legumes 80 le'gyoom, li-gyoom' metabolize 79 me-tab'oh-liez microphage 82 ma'kruh-fayj Nakajima 83 nah-kah-jee'muh nodule 80 nah'jool, -juhl phosphate 79 fahs'fait phospherous 79 fahs'fruhs, fahs'fuh-ruhs photosynthesis 78 foto'sin-thuh-suhs, -sint- postulate 79 pahs'chuh-layt primordial 79 prie-mawr'dee-uhl sauerkraut 81 saur'-kraut, sau'-uhR- Schweitzer 83 shwiet'suhr, shviet- Shintoist 74 shin'toh-ist, shin-toh'- spontaneous 74 spahn-tay'nee-uhs stoics 74 stoh'ik theoi 75 the·oi' thee-oi' ( Pronunciation KEY )
The four stages of acceptance of a scientific theory:It seems that many only grudgingly accept change. In fact, it's been said that science can only really progress when the old scientists die. While this is a cynical statement, it does reflect that after having been trained to properly weigh evidence, many experts in the field still arrive at conclusions based upon previously held notions, even after having been disproven. Thus, in the face of evidence of the universal handiwork from some superior intelligence in the creation of our universe, some experts defy the chains of prejudice which hold back the progression toward greater awareness, and announce their conclusions, recognizing publicly the evidence of some greater intelligence.
(i) this is worthless nonsense;
(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
(iv) I always said so.
-- quip by J. B. S. Haldane
The cosmic "religious feeling" makes me think of the "Force" that is such a big part of the theme of the popular Star Wars story line. Some 'generic but superior intelligence', which is general in capability but can be focused at times on individual points or people through 'medionites' (or something of that concept). This is a generic enough story line that finds acceptance from Christianity through Shintoism. Yet, such a generic story cannot answer specific questions, such as why we are here, and where we came from. In fact, such a story line ignores those questions, looking only toward a hopeful but unprovable future. Just as many religions do.
Kenichi Fukui directed the Institute of Fundamental Chemistry at Kyoto University until his death in 1998. In 1954 he first published his theoretical work on the relationship between molecular orbitals and chemical reactivity, but it was ignored for two reasons, 1) most experimental chemists at the time did not have the necessary mathematical background to understand it, and 2) the few theoretical chemists who understood it, thought the theory too simplistic. The theory held that during chemical reactions molecules share loosely bonded electrons that occupy so-called frontier orbitals. This theory, when finally understood an accepted, advanced the understanding of the mechanism of chemical reactions, especially in the production of organic compounds. In 1981 he shared a Nobel Prize with Roald Hoffmann, a Polish-American chemist who independantly arrived at many of the same discoveries. Right up to the time of his death from cancer, Dr. Fukui was known as the foremost proponent of science education in Japan.
The online Chinese Dictionaries ok88 and zhongwen have a slight penman difference from the book in the way that the pictograph for nature is written. The online drawing of 
is more 'modern', I suppose. It could also be a regional dialect difference. The meaning being the same, however, I decided to try and pick apart the entomology of the word. Since two character sets [
("self") and 
("existing")] are involved, this would entail two paths to follow. Thus, I came up with this table:
| zí (self) |
rán (existing) |
|---|---|
The upper slash represents a person's nose (dái)The lower portion  (mú) represents the eyes.
This correlates with my personal experiences with self identity in the orient. Often a person raised in many parts of Asia, when intending to identify themselves, as in "do you mean me?", would point to their nose, or between their eyes, which are located directly in front of the brain, the source of selfness. Conceptually, the nose and eyes are the indicator of self, individualism. |
The upper left portion of this pictograph is derived from  (cún) which shows a human leaning over something, such as a young child.
The upper right portion is an implementation of  (quân), a pictograph of a dog.
The bottom four 'ticks' are dervived from  (hûo), which are flames of rising fire.
Essentially this picture represents a person leaning over roasting dog meat. Essentially eeking out their own existance. |
| Thence, putting the two parts back together, we can readily see how the sense of nature coming into existence on it's own is derived. This linguistic concept has permeated generations of people. | |
Epicurus was a celibate whose sayings were found in the Vatican Library. He held that physical knowledge could negate skepticism and superstition, and would promote human happiness. Also held by him was the notion that human thinking was accomplished through specialized neural atoms, and that extraterrestrial life existed on other worlds. He wrote to Herodotus that, "it is upon sensation that reason must rely when it attempts to infer the unknown from the known". This kind of thinking disabled any reliance upon an external concept of deity, moving the central focus of existance squarely upon the individual. He also held that pain could not remain in the body for a long period of time, especially if the mind focused on mental pleasure. I'll remember to tell that to the next person I meet with a hip or knee replacement. This guy was obviously not a realist. He did stand against the popular magical beliefs of his time, and said that, "Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us." (Sovran Maxim #2) But he offered no hope for anyone after death.
With it's emphasis on pleasure, did Epicurean philosophy contribute to a purposeful life? Did it provide a solid hope? No, for even its founder, Epicurus, referred to life as a "bitter gift."
--Awake! 1972, November 22, þ 17.
The Stoics were disciples of a Greek philosopher named Zeno of Elea. His philosophies were in many ways similar to the Taoist philosophy of China. Such as, both teach one to become harmonious with nature, to live simple lives, and to be content with ones conditions. Both also view the world as exchange of opposites. However, the stoics also believed in a great Conflagration, wherein the universe would be reabsored and recreated again. Zeno's favorite method of postulating was to take a philosophers' postulates and deduce from it two contradictory conclusions. Aristotle called him the inventor of dialectic, which is the artful skill of arguing. Stoics held that, "it is irrational to want that which is not God's will, so attune thyself with thy inner Nature and live happily." Thus a person who holds in their feelings (usually until they explode in outburst, or cause physical damage) eventually became known as "stoic". God deemed it, just take it and be happy about it, this way of thinking goes. A hardening of a persons emotional makeup is what it results in. Who ever loved cold, calloused, and difficult to penetrate armor? Not I.
Lucius Seneca was a stoic, and a leading intellectual person of Rome at the time Jesus was on the earth. Some of his writings, although dismissing Jesus' importance, indicate that Jesus Christ was, in his mind, undisputable as a historical person.
Four main schools of philosophy originated in Athens by: Aristotle (Paripatetic), Epicurus (Epicurean), Plato (Platonic), and Zeno (Stoic). Just as universities and colleges today 'collect' students from all around, students of these philosophies abounded in Athens. Thus it is no surprise that Paul found many of them at the Agora, situated in a valley below the Aeropagus, that day, in fact that may have been a particularly slow day, because the account only mentions that Epicureans and Stoics were in attendance. However, it could be that they were simply the momentary majority, a trickle of the other philosophical members "happened to be on hand" as well. But there is no evidence of this, just the possibility. Perhaps an illusive Sophist was around as well, but unlikely as this would have been "important" enough to those present to have been noted.
The apostle Paul entered Athens, and activated the acount in Acts 17 only 20 years after Tiberius Caesar abolished all foreign cults primarily from Rome, but this carried into all parts of Roman influence to more or lessor degrees. Athens being the central focus of many accepted Roman beliefs would hold the greater degree of upholding this law. Thus Paul was at risk of life, slavery, or at the least, of being forced into foreign military service by focusing on the subject of the one true God. Socrates had been put to death by this same legal accusation. Therefore the accusation of his 'bringing in foriegn deities' was not an idle threat, nor a mere philosophical observation. Tiberius' decree was especially focused on the Egyptian and the Jewish faiths and rites, as well as astrologers. They were expected to burn and destroy all objects incurring their 'addictions' to such religous methods. Thus, Paul showed the degree to which his conviction was in the true God, that he risked himself in order to bring the greater benefit to those who would listen. And that he used the one temple to an "unknown god" in order to present this to those who would disagree in order to evade inappropriate discipline indicates that Jehovah's spirit was in operation upon him, helping him to find a message using his legal background that would be delectable to those philosophers who loved to argue, rather than listen.
Thomas H. Huxley held that being 'agnostic' was antithetic to the 'gnostic' of Church history. In other words, Huxley didn't think that all matter is inherently evil, nor that spiritual truth was essential to salvation. Today this word implies that any god or gods that do exist, have no relevence in our lives, whether they are disinterested or incapable. He stated that, "Agnostics...have no creed; and, by the nature of the case, cannot have any. Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle." And he later defined faith as "The surest and strongest conviction you can have." He also stated that, "Agnostic...in the sense of a philosophical system is senseless: its import lies in being a confession of ignorance..." Now, comparing this to the definition of the greek word agnostos, which is: unkown or forgotten; and to the historical account of Epemenides, a Cretan who sacrificed to an unknown God in Athens, of which at least one of his alters still existed in Paul's day; then there is an apparent disparity between Huxley's definition of Agnostic, and that of the apostle Paul and those who heard Paul's words. Huxley's definition is one of denial and disability toward any deity, and Paul's was one more of getting to know better the God who is unknown or forgotten.
At the moment Einstein completed his formula of the general theory of relativity, an ordinary house fly landed on the paper. Upon reflecting over all of the major universal physical laws he had just set down, he realized that we still don't even know very much about that house fly. He also illustrated the depth (or lack of depth) of man's advances in knowledge to a person who climbed on the roof of his house to get a closer look at the moon. The bottom line is, we haven't even scratched the surface of all there is to know. Understanding this is to also understand that we also haven't even begun to know and understand the One who has created all of these things. In this sense, He is still an unknown God to all of us, even those who have focused on learning more about Him for entire lifetimes. We'd need a few milleniums, or longer, in order to even break through the barrier of basic understandings and depth of His personality. Hmmmm... I like that idea!
Even given this, however, there is sufficient understanding and evidence surrounding us today to clue us in to the major components of the true God's personality. And where there is personality, there is a person. Often a persons personality shows through his work, art, humor, and many other facets of life. But a personality it is that shines through, most often only in part. And it takes many pieces in order to put together enough of a picture to understand it. For example, if a writer writes a technical document, then one can gain a sense of how his mind reasons and pieces together information. However, take that same writer, and have him write an obituary, or a biography of a persons life, then a sense of concern, respect, or compassion might shine through. And carrying this further, should that same writer compose a book of humor, then a further element of the picture of his personality is revealed. Such it is with nature and the elements of the universe, there is enough to pause in reflection, and realization, that a personality is being revealed.
C5 Chart on þ 78
Maybe it's the 'geekiness' coming out in me, but here is my rendition of a flow chart showing what the chart in the book represents. However, I've taken some of the steps a bit further, to their logical 'conclusion' (assuming a conclusion can be arrived at):
C5 Box on þ 79
If a person comes to the conclusion that God does not exist, then they remain stuck in one of the endless loops of logic. Otherwise logic dictates that they have to admit that at least the possibility of an eternal God exists. No one can say with certainty that God does not exist.
Some phycists and mathematical theorists arrive that the conclusion that the universe could have developed as any one of an infinite array of physical properties different from ours, and that ours is unique and just right to support the existance of life. The fact that we live in a universe in which the odds of supporting life are a ratio of 1:
, many conclude that indeed, there is intelligent assistance involved. For example, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, William Thompson, Joseph Clerk Maxwell (who Einstein declared as "the most profound and most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton"), and Albert Einstein, five of the greatest phycists of all time, all spoke of their belief that the universe was placed here by a Creator. With the massive amount of 'odds' that our very existance has surpassed, He is a benevolent, and loving intelligence, who has in His control every facet of this universe and of nature.
We live on a planet that offers a variety of climates, choices of land configurations, different levels of water supply, and many other variations. Yet, whether it was the Inuit of the frozen north, the Polynesians of the Pacific, and any other climate or location type in between, all found supplies of food. Rarely did the exact foods cross geographic areas, until mankind's shipping came into regular use. This gives evidence that some personality has a desire for all to eat, and have plenty of it. If fact, it's only more recently, due to, once again, mankind's disturbance, deserts of old began to grow, and spread. Even the top soil of China, which was once measured at an average of 600 feet in depth, is now being eroded due to the increasingly popular use of 'modern' farming methods. Some personality provided plenty, and another set of personalities is ruining the provision. Is the destroyer to be more valued than the provider? This is worth considering. And isn't it ironic that the very society that caused food problems is the self-appointed one intending to fix it? How much more sensible to look to the originator of food for this. (Psalm 72:16)
Many businesses will tout their product as a "miracle food", offering some claimed benefit or cure. But what is interesting is that most people don't even consider the fact that food itself is a miracle. Note for example that most food is carbon based. And so are we. Yet, how much carbon is in the atmosphere? Some estimate the average amount of carbon on the surface of the earth at 33 parts per million. Carbon is essentially rare. And there is certainly not enough in the soil or air to eat and survive off of! Yet, it is a basic component required by our survival. Thus, through the yet to be understood process of photo-synthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide and convert the carbon into foods which us and animals can process as food. In turn, we can also eat the reprocessed carbon that became animal in form. But the entire use of this carbon entering the food chain began at the level of plantlife. Thus, within the desert of a majority of non-carbon elements, a method has been employed by which an abundance of nourishment is made available. A miracle indeed. Can you see it? Imagine a person who is surrounded by miracles on a daily basis. It would be easy for this person to allow such miracles to be viewed a blasé, routine, or unimpressive. Let us notfall prey to that mistake.
Even within this amazing process, we find further interesting discoveries. For instance, the common lilac. It blooms with pretty little blossoms and has a wonderful aroma. Yet there is more to this plant than essence and beauty. This plant also performs mathematical calculations, as it does not bloom until the sum of the squares of the mean daily temperature since the end of the most recent previous frost adds up to 4,264 (figured in Celsius). This might not be so impressive to some. But consider how many people were required to design and build the first electronic calculator that could perform simple addition.
To get an extremely oversimplified idea of the delicate balance required by all of the components required by life that are listed in the book, in the second ¶ on þ 78, try this 'experiement': A minimum of two people are required, but it's doubtful that success will come easily without at least four or more. (If one does actually try this, be sure and use eye goggles and a mask to cover the mouth and nose in the event of failure) Each person has a stick about four or five feet long, with a rubber tip at the end. In cooperative effort, without using the hands other than to hold the end of the stick opposite the light bulb, unscrew a typical incandescent light bulb from a lamp or ceiling socket. Once unscrewed, set it down, then replace it with a new one, again, using only the rubber tipped ends of the sticks opposite the hands. You'll soon discover how difficult getting inanimate objects to cooperate is, and in fact, you'll have an advantage because each stick has an intelligent source beind it. The processes described in the paragraph too, have an intelligent source behind them, else they too would break down into their lesser components and become uncooperative rather quickly.
Phosphate on the earth has been described as being feast or famine in quanitity, with "too much in North American and European soils and some coastal estuaries and not enough in soils of the tropics, sub-Saharan Africa, South America and in the open ocean." A phosphorus will usually bind with four oxygen atoms, which results in a stable molecule so strong that even the extreme temperatures across the climates of the earth do not break it down. However, enzymes within the plant cell can reduce the phosphor-oxygen isotope into its lesser components, releasing the oxygen back into the enviornment. Less is known about the phosphorus cycle and which organisms play a role in it, than what is known about the nitrogen cycle. However, it has been realized that too much phosphate (such as runoff from fertilizers) can cause uncontrolled algae growth, which ruins the look and taste of drinking water, as well as binds with oxygen in the water causing massive suffocation of fish and other forms of water borne life.
Unlike the phosphates, which are found mostly in a soil borne cycle, Nitrogen is locked into the atmosphere. And even though it is more abundant, it is in a form that cannot be processed by biological life. Yet this chemical is extremely important, as it is necessary to our bodies to build proper DNA/RNA molecules, for manufacturing proteins, and a host of other activities without any of which life could not exist. Yet, as stated, even though this chemical is abundant on the earth, it is in a form useless to us and other animal life. This product cannot be substituded. So how is it we get nitrogen then? Like the phosphorus, nitrogen compounds are extremely stable, yet cynobacteria microbes found in plants and the soil, as well as the occasional thunderstorm produces a small amount of nitrogen useful to higher order life. Although the useful nitrogen is scarce, it is enough. Often factory made nitrogen fertilizers, made from a process developed between 1899 and 1913 by Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber of Germany, will be spread into the soil to increase plant growth. While such methods provide momentary benefits, over fertilization has the effect of sterilizing the soil of natural nitrogen producing bacteria, forcing the farmer to add yet more fertilizer. It also leads to water runoff pouing excessive nitrogen into rivers, streams, and oceans, causing a bloom of cynobacteria and algae, thus choking the water life of oxygen. If that is not worrisome enough, it also produces nitrous oxide, a component of smog, and a compound that has ozone destroying effects. Combustion engines, yes, even natural gas or propane fuels, produce nitrogen pollution as well. And even this, is in a form that is useless. Some hold that if a large enough portion of the human population converted to holding ot a high vegetation diet, this would help the over-nitrogen crisis by providing more land for crops, but also for better rotation of crops that return nitrogen to the soil by natural means, and a near zero risk of runoff and over fertilization.
To describe the method that the plants use photosynthesis in conjunction with phosphates, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, along with other chemistry, would entail an entire book in of itself. One thing is certain, such complexity could not have just happened. Even the most complexly written story book cannot match the interwoven threads of life, even of the life of a lowly blade of grass. If a person doesn't think so, then challenge them to make a living blade of grass. They'll find out for themselves just how complex it is, and will still fail in such an attempt.
Here is a schematic of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles as best as I could piece them together:
For a wonderful overall description of the beauty of this process, you might find the following article interesting:
The Watchtower 1993, June 15, þ 11, "Creation Says, 'They Are Inexcusable'"
It is interesting the humans have found ways to recycle just about everything, even garnets. Although many come up with anywhere number of "steps" to recycle, the global cry to recycle seems to be summed up in the three words, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". And doesn't nature do just that? It reduces one systems 'waste' into it's most basic components. Once broken down, the natural process then reuses the components, in many cases completing the cycle by going back to the original system from whence it came. Water, nitrogen, a large number of different subjects could be pointed to for this. Thus long before it was popular to do so, someone designed into the natural processes a recycling method that has been carrying on unguided by humans for milleniums. Even the best designed recycling process by humans is complex, and requires maintenance. So if humans, the highest intelligence on the planet didn't put the process into nature, then who did? It most certainly wan't blind intellect, but rather a loving creator with excellent and loving forsight.
Thank You Jehovah!
--Millions worldwide today.
The communication and behavior between bacteria is nothing short of remarkable. It was once thought that bacteria were essentially individual organisms that were found in colonies for the simple fact that the enviornement was favorable. However, it is now understood that these organisms communicate through "discussants", or "autoinducers". Chemical messengers that trigger genes which in turn trigger specific protein production in neighbor bacterial cells, which contribute toward a common goal. Some animals that display luminescence, such as the Euprymna scolopes squid lives in symbiosis with Vibrio fischeri in this way. Such is the same with our own stomachs. Specific foods trigger the types of enzymes required to digest specific food types. This is why if one eats a large meal of food with a variety of food types, such as meats, vegetables, and breads, all in one sitting, it takes longer to digest than if a person eats only one or two kinds of food, because what occurs then, is that the enzymes must compete in order to digest, rather than break down the food with better concentration. Thus it's not difficult to sense that the complexity of single cells internally is much more complex than being a semii-rigid liquid filled capsule, with the DNA/RNA, nucleus, organelles, etc... But the surprising complexity doesn't end there, as the bacteria can communicate with each other. And even with their higher organisms with which they live in symbiosis. If not, then how would our stomachs know when to churn? and how would the squid tell the bacterium to 'turn the lights on (or off)'?
... I saw great abundance of living creatures ... I found great plenty of them in one drop of water ... They looked to my eye, through the Microscope, as common sand doth to the naked eye.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1676
White blood cells detect foreign bacteria by the unique carbohydrates and lipids that bacteria put at the beginning of of their protein chains. The receptors of each white blood cell are apparently randomized, created by variations of the DNA, providing a large array of detection throughout the blood and lymphatic systems. The approximately one billion billion (trillion) sentinels (once again, the numbers in the book appear to be conservative) stand at apparent rest, until an invading body matches the antibody receptor of the white blood cell. It's interesting that some diseased cannot be detected in the human body, other than for the medical staff to perform a white blood cell count, looking for the specific types in order to determine the disease. This would indicate that our bodies are still more sensitive to such invading hosts than current human technology. Some medical researchers call the blood system a "complex microenviornment". So complex that some are still spending entire lifetimes to try and understand it, with no end in yet sight.
At the point the host body is invaded, the B white blood cells (macrophages) attack the invader by inflicting it with specific enzymes which trigger the invading body into self destruction, it's peptides being snipped into many fragments. At the same time the white blood cell quickly begins a process of division, replicating itself in large quantities, but with a specific imprint of on the foriegn invader. Without this requirement for a invading body to act as a replication trigger, the white blood cells would continue to reproduce indefinitely, which could lead to a host of blood borne problems. However, as the invading bodies decline, so does the replication process. T white blood cells further destroy the peptides and remaining DNA fragments into lower level products that can be consumed by nearby host cells as fuel. But what is interesting, is that just enough of the specificly marked white blood cells are maintained, that in the future should the same invader be detected, it will be eliminated much swifter than previously. This is but one small, but extremely complex, function that occurs in our blood system. And out blood system is but one small function within our bodies. Our level of complexity is such, that not much could be changed without resulting in the inability to remain alive, or even become alive. This is much too complicated to imagine it having come about by chance. Even a trip to the moon and back is much simpler by far, than the design we find in our complex organism, our body. Even the description in the book, as well as my description are both understated and over simplified, as there are actually five different types of white blood cells. Here's a page describing why AIDs is able to get around the bodies normal immunity by sending the white blood cells to the lymph system.
Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima's statement to WHO is here.
Albert Schweitzer was sensitive to those around him. In his home town of Guernsbach, Alsace, and while the ripe old age six, he refused to wear clothing that distinguished him as different from those in his school who could not afford the same fine attire that Albert's family could. He was called a genious by his music teacher in Paris, but abandoned this avenue to emulate his father as a pastor. After graduating from Strasbourg University, and before his first year as a pastor was completed, he wrote two books, one religious and one biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. While in the ministry work, he read about the needs of people in Africa, so he set out to the Congo (Republic of Zaire). There he sensed the peoples needs for medical attention, thus sought out medical training, after which he talked the Paris Missionary Society into send him and his new wife, Helen to Africa. He was assigned to Lambarene on the Ogooue River (Gabon) where he opened his first clinic in an old chicken coup, treating thousands until World War I broke out, when he and Helen, being Germans in French occupied territory, were taken as prisoners of war. Following a multi-volume book and the end of the war, the couple returned to Africa, financing his trip and medical supplies with a musical tour of Europe. His methods of allowing the people to maintain their own comforts of food and livestock outside of the hospital drew international attention and acclaim, which resulted in much needed support. His goal was to work toward "the direct needs of humanity", which he did until his last breath in 1965 at age 90. He attained a level of respect unbeknownst by many, even his hospital in Lambarene was deemed "off limits" by agreement between the Hitler's collaborationists and the Free French during world war II. Sadly though, despite all he attained and accomplished, his struggle to find the meaning of life was never fully satisfied.
As I mentioned in my notes in chapter 1 that many have a "fatalistic interpretation the laws of nature". However, if nature is looked at with an open heart and mind, allowing the facts to intepret themselves, then what is eventually discovered is a harmony, in fact a benevolence embedded within nature. Human cells will commit suicide to work toward preservation of surrounding cells, animals and plants live in symbiosis, a natural balance of food and life is self-perpetuated. That is, if not interrupted by mankind. For this reason, one can not only discover that there is an intelligent creator who created all things, but that the Creator is loving and desirous of our happiness.
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
-- Albert Einstein
Here is an interesting article that very well summarizes this chapter for us.
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