An
atheist friend of Sir Isaac Newton visited the famed scientist shortly after Newton had
constructed a mechanical model of the solar system. The man walked over to it, turned the
crank and the planets and moons moved around in their orbits.
"How
wonderful!" the man exclaimed. "Who made it?"
"Nobody
did," answered Newton.
The astonished
visitor protested that this marvelous machine had to have been made by somebody,
to which Newton replied:
"Now isn't
it amazing. I tell you that nobody made this simple toy, and you don't believe me. Yet you
gaze at the intricate design of the solar system and dare to say that no one made
it."
