Sir,-It seems very strange to me that humans will readily talk about eternity to come, but utterly fail to realise that eternity must Teach both ways, that the world has been ever since and will be for ever. Science says that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed, and astronomers have found that new suns are constantly being created by explosions of huge masses of cosmic dust and that old burnt-out suns, for reasons unknown, suddenly shoot off on an eliptic or parabolic course, leaving a trail of cosmic
dust behind them and eventually disappear. It seems quite ridiculous to assume that God, after doing nothing for an eternity, suddenly made a world by creating the laws of nature which at present govern everything. I fully endorse J. Malton Murray’s timely warning in your issue of December 23, that man at present looks like forestalling his destiny by making an end of himself, which will surely happet unless he starts at once to remodel world education on much more international lines.
G. F. B.
WEISS
(Mangonui).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 5
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