Connecticut western news., 1885-10-07
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Es the Regularity of the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies Any Evidence Of fha Existence of a GSOdI

Es the Regularity of the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies Any Evidence of the Existence of a God!
 How often do we hear, especially from the pulpit, the regularity of the motion of the heavenly bodies referred to as an evidence of the existence of God.
 Without any controversy as to the existence of supreme being, let us suppose the material universe to be either self-existent (the possibility of which being denied leaves no occasion for proving by the regularity of the motions of the bodies the existence of God to create them), or to have been created by divine mind, as soon as the matter existed, in whichever way it may have been created, it must have existed in certain condition, and that condi- tion was and is the law of its existence, the law by which it is and must be con- trolled and all its motions regulated. Those motions must of necessity be regular in order to comply with those conditions or that law, that is, certain relation must have existed between each particle of matter and every other parti- cle, for the matter could not have exist ed without some existing relation, and all laws controlling matter must have sprung from that relation, whatever it may have been, and the effect of the operation of those laws must be uniform as long as matter exists. Therefore the regularity of those motions can be nei- ther an evidence of the existence or the non-existence of a God nor of the inter- ference of divine will.
 But were the motions of the heavenly bodies irregular, that irregularity would operation of mind or some force outside of the Jaw controlling matter Whatever it may be called or wherever it may ex- ist), by which they are controlled, be- cause they could not deviate one parti- cle from their regular course without destroying the conditions by which they exist, which would be the annihilation of all matter.
 The writer recently heard it stated from the pulpit that "were a planet thrown from its orbit by any power, it would be impossible for 1t to be replac- ed without the direct interference of divine will" This sentence proves ex- actly the opposite from what its author intended, for if planet were thrown from the orbit, which, by the controlling law of matter 1t has assumed, by any force outside of nature or by God, and that force withdrawn, not only would the planet be thrown from its orbit but the equilibrium of the whole universe of course disturbed, and although as soon as the force was withdrawn that equilibrium would, by degrees be re- stored, the bodies of the universe would never return to the exact relative posi- tion that they would could the effect of that force be destroyed, which could not be done by any law of nature, but the new paths which they had assumed would be their orbits and they could not be restored to their original position, that is, thrown from their orbits or their motions made ir- regular without the interference of some power outside of the material universe, and to render their motions irregular would require a constant application of that power. s
 Or to express the above idea more briefly and clearly it would be impossi- ble for any number of worlds to exist, no matter as to the source of their ori- gin, without their assuming. in obedi- ence to laws springing from certain properties inseperable from matter, a relation to each other in position and motion which would be regular and constant, unless they were molested by some foreign influence or possessed of voluntary power Therefore, if either the regularity of motion or the reverse be an evidence of the exertion of divine power it certainly seems most reasona- ble to suppose it to be the latter.
 ENQUIRER.