An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
Now consider this: light travels at the terrific speed of 186,000 miles
per second – that’s seven and a half times around the earth in a
second! Distances in space are measured in light years, i.e. the
distance that would be covered in a year travelling at 186,000 miles
per second. The closest star to us after our sun is 4.3 light years away.
That’s over twenty-five thousand billion miles away! A gigantic star
explosion, the Supernova 1987a, was observed in 1987 in the
‘nearby’ galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is 190,000 light
years away. So what we saw in 1987 actually happened 190,000 years
before then! The most distant object astronomers have been able to
see in the universe was 18 billion light years away – it took 18 billion
years travelling at 186,000 miles per second for its light to reach us!
And that’s just what we’ve been able to see!
And yet, throughout the vast reaches of the outer space of the cosmos
all the way to the microscopic realm of the atoms that make us, if
there’s one thing we find again and again, it’s that perfect balance and
order govern them all. Every scientist has absolute faith that the laws of
the universe, from the macro to the micro level, do indeed represent
one overall system, every piece of which fits into an intricate design
with perfect logic and necessity.
The unbelievable complexity with which a single cell is formed was
unknown in Darwin’s days. Each one contains power stations to
produce the energy the cell needs, enzyme- and hormonemanufacturing
plants, a databank of the vast information of everything
that’s to be produced, complex transportation systems for handling
raw materials, advanced laboratories and refineries to break them
down and process them and a specialised control unit monitoring
everything that enters or leaves the cell. All this is just a small part of an
incredibly complex system. Scientists have had to admit that “the most
elementary type of cell constitutes a mechanism unimaginably more
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