When we reflect on how this world works, we are left with more questions than answers. Questions that no science, no observation, no empiricism, and no hypothesis can fully answer. However much we might try to dig beneath the surface to uncover the root of the mechanisms, we are left amazed. Something speaks to us, affects us, convinces us of a grand design. Call it God’s hand, or call it something else: something more powerful than our little tweaks of intellect. How is this possible that an aberration doesn’t emerge in the otherwise perfect order of things? The moon revolves around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the Sun, and the Sun keeps the planets bound in its embrace. We may have scientific explanations for it, and it’s no sin to analyse and test hypotheses, but doesn’t silence follow at some point when........

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