A Model Argument: How Newton Proved Creation Needs a Maker

Sir Isaac Newton was once examining a new and fine globe, when a gentleman came into his study, who did not believe in a God, but declared that the world we live in came by chance. He was much pleased with the handsome globe, and asked, "Who made it?"

"Nobody," answered Sir Isaac, "it happened here."

The gentleman looked up in amazement at the answer, but he soon understood what it meant.

The Bible says, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." Must not that man be a fool indeed, who can say this beautiful and wonderful world came by chance, when he knows there is not a house, or ship, or picture, or any other thing in it, but has had a maker. We might better say that this paper we are reading grew just as it is, than to say that the sun, moon, and stars, and this globe on which we live, came without a creative hand.[1]

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[1] The Sailor's Magazine and Seamen's Friend (April 1873), Volume 45,  Issue 4, pg. 113. Note: This anecdote also appears in Moody Monthly (January 1923), pg. 227. The statement of it given in Moody Monthly, however, does not include the final paragraph as the earlier article does.