By RAYMOND DE SOUZA You must have noticed that there are plenty of laws in Nature: in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, algebra, geometry, etc. Scientists did not invent the laws of nature, they just discover them. Even the smallest speck of dust, is, in all its movements and changes, subject to fixed natural laws. The same holds for living things — plants, animals, and men: each species grows, develops, and acts in the same way. They follow the specific laws of their own nature. The entire universe is bound together into one vastly and incredibly complicated whole, like a great, marvelous machine, whose parts are admirably fitted together in perfect order. Look at the orderly movement of the galaxies, the Milky Way; or what we can see in the photos taken by the Hubble telescope; or the marvelous structure of living things and their organs, such as sight and hearing, the wonderful instinct of animals, as in the work of bees and the nest-building of

By RAYMOND J DE SOUZA In Singapore, Pope Francis stated rather matter-of-factly that all religions are pathways to God, or different languages about God. Let us investigate this question, which smacks of religious indifferentism.                 Everyone knows that there are many religions in the world today, all claiming to be true. Many were founded by individuals who claimed to be ‘prophets’ of God — or of the gods, depending. In this context, why should we be Christian at all? Why not be a Moslem, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu, an animist or whatever sort?                 How could a man who founded a specific religion — or a woman, for that matter, and I am thinking of Mrs. Ellen White, who founded the Adventists of the Seventh Day, or Madam Blavatsky of Theosophy, for instance — how would such a person prove the authenticity of his or her message? One could use fire and sword and enslave people, like Mohammed, or present an attractive philosophy