2 of his works nonetheless adumbrated the concept in the...

2 of his works nonetheless adumbrated the concept in the antiphons of the section: "Holy and Transcendent art Thou, our Creator and Preserver: Thou knowest the weight of heaven. "Holy and Transcendent art Thou, our Creator and Preserver: Thou knowest the weight of the worlds. "Holy and Transcendent art Thou, our Creator and Preserver: Thou knowest the weight of the sun and the moon. "Holy and Transcendent art Thou, our Creator and Preserver: Thou knowest the weight of darkness and light.

"Holy and Transcendent art Thou, our Creator and Preserver: Thou knowest the weights of air and of shadow." Even the natural qualities which scientists deduce on the basis of experiments which the senses can grasp, and the inferences ratiocination draws therefrom, cannot be directly perceived. Radio Waves are in movement in all directions, everywhere, all the time, yet not seen.

No place is free of the forces of gravitational attraction, yet the force is not material nor can particles of it be found for measurement. The task and triumph of science is the study of the effects of invisible forces and the formulation of their inner laws of being and operation. Geology traces the formation of the strata in the earth's crust.

With absolute certainty they inform us of the order of their formation over millions of years; and from their clines and anticlines, their folds and outcroppings; tell us how the oceans came into being, how they spread, how the mountain chains were formed, how the continental plates have moved into their present positions. Yet no person now alive was there to witness any of these events about which they so confidently instruct us. And we believe them, without ourselves having seen any of it.

Metaphysical concepts like beauty or love, hate and enmity, and knowledge possess a form of existence which cannot be perceived nor its nature determined nor its limits fixed. Yet we nonetheless recognise them as realities. A man is conscious of knowing, and of what he knows, and of his perceptions of truths which cannot be felt by the senses. Man is also conscious of himself within his person, though no other human can observe that self.

It is only observation of actions which enables us to deduce that a personal will inspires them. Does the intangibility of these factors and the inscrutability of their qualities necessarily involve a denial of their existence? Atheists imagine that the existence of God must involve His occupying bodily space and time.