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scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them
confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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notation: it would be 1 followed by 10123 successive 0s. Even if we were to write a 0 on each separate proton
and on each separate neutron in the entire universe- and we could throw in all the other particles for good
measure- we should fall far short of writing down the figure needed.
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know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists.
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