"To the reverent scientist...the simplest features of the world about us are in themselves so awe-inspiring that there seems no need to seek new and greater miracles of God's care."
             Since the moment that I could make intelligible sounds come out of my mouth, I have been sent to a private Catholic school. For the past thirteen years, my young, impressionable mind has been bombarded with stories of resurrection, and miracles. Now, as I sit here as a senior in High School, about to embark on the rest of my life, I am asked a question, "Do you believe in God?" To most, this question will have a clear and obvious answer, but I am not sure that I can give one. This is not to say that all my schooling has gone for naught, but rather it is a comment on the free will that we all have. If I am going to stand up and say that I believe in God, it will not be because I have been told I do since I was four, but rather because I actually do, meaning, I have thought about it, and came to a conclusion based on my own thoughts and ideas.
             I am not going to state outright whether or not I believe, but rather give my thoughts, and see what I feel at the end. On one hand, there is the most obvious thing of all; the universe is supremely awesome. This fact alone may be enough to persuade almost anybody. I will give an example I saw in a book from the library. The sun is burning at approximately 20 million degrees Celsius at its interior. If we were to move the earth `away' 10%, we would soon freeze to death. If we were to move the earth `closer' by 10%, we would once again be incinerated. The sun is poised at 93 million miles from earth, which happens to be just right--by accident? The moon is poised some 240,000 miles from the earth. Move it in just one fifth, and twice every day there would be 35-50 feet high tidal waves over most of the earth's surface. The distance of 240,000 miles happens to he just right--by a
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