One of the most obvious testimonies to God in the natural world is the sheer size of it all. Both the land and the sky stretch farther than the eye can see. We live in the midst of something indescribably great, and greatness is a palpable mark of God. Immanuel Kant, who rejected the traditional theistic proofs, nevertheless expressed awe at the “starry heavens above” (which I am considering here) and “the moral law within” (which I shall consider later).6 But Blaise Pascal, writing in 1560, expressed
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