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tablished unreasoning unions and gave rise to the world we see with all its perfect features—and also to

ourselves, with our minds and consciousness.
By setting out these claims, materialists sought to indoctrinate people with the idea that man was not
made by a Creator and that apart from matter, nothing existed. The fact is, though, that man was obvi-

ously created with perfect systems and mechanisms, through an extraordinary mind and intelligence.
There were no unconscious processes on Earth of the kind suggested by materialists, and no unthinking
structures and systems arose as a consequence. Everything displays a complexity and sublimity that of-
ten exceeds the capacity of human minds to comprehend, and so perfect are these details that they ex-
clude all possibility of chance. The Earth itself reveals proofs of creation.

Despite these facts, however, materialists insisted in their claims that unconscious atoms were the
basis of all things. So what, according to materialists, were these atoms, the source of all else that exists?
In one respect, we now know that the atom is an almost complete void, and that is a proven fact. We

can explain this as follows: If you imagine the atomic nucleus, comprised of neutrons and protons, as a
pinhead just 1 millimeter (0.039 of an inch) in diameter, then an electron revolving around that nucleus
does so at a distance of 100 meters (328 feet)! 4
In this considerable volume between the nucleus and the electrons, the only thing that exists is emp-
ty space. This 100-meter void is literally “empty.” That is why in one sense, experts are justified in re-

garding the atom as an empty vacuum. In the words of the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, mat-
ter is mostly “ghostly empty space.” To be more precise, it is 99.9999999% empty.
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Fred Alan Wolf, a particle physicist at the University of California describes this fact regarding the

atom:
If you stop to think about it at all, you might realize that life on planet as we live it is re-

ally a surprise, considering just how empty the universe really is. In fact, the universe
is more than 99 percent nothing! And considering that the universe is still ex-
panding at an alarming rate, it’s getting to be more nothing than it ever was! So

while looking out at it leaves us in awe, when we consider the microworld of
subatomic matter, it’s even worse. There, nothing exists in spades, so to speak. 6

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