GOD IN NATURE
Sir-J. E. Hamill (Rotorua), lacks understanding. There is no loveliness in a lily, the beauty being in the mind, and there is no mystery; the obscurity is also in the mind. Beauty is a question of education and heredity, and the growth of a lily is simply a dcombination of circumstances. If the lily did not grow under these circumstances, that might be a mystery. Likewise the idea of God is in the mind also. In nature "things" consistently behave along certain lines, so instead of this uniformity pointing to a . God in nature, if "things" varied their
behaviour under identical circumstances, that might be an argument for an overruling intelligence in nature,
OLIVER
(Te Awamutu).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 3
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119GOD IN NATURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 3
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