The basis for this assurance about God lies in the common understanding or impression that all of “natural” reality, including you and me, owes its existence and therefore its astonishing order and magnificence to something other than itself. We have no experience of any natural object or event that is self-productive or self-sustaining. Yet we are very familiar with the role of human thought and planning in the production of food, furniture, computers, airplanes, and so forth. So it is an easy inference for human beings, which they have always drawn, to find a great “God most high” through
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