who made it?

Sir Isaac Newton had a friend who, like himself, was a great scientist; but he was an infidel, while Newton was a devout believer, and they often locked horns over this question, though their mutual interest in science drew them together. Newton had a skilled mechanic make him a replica of our solar system in miniature. In the center was a large gilded ball representing the sun, and revolving around this were smaller balls fixed on the ends of varying lengths, representing Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, in their proper order. These balls were also geared together by cogs and belts as to move in perfect harmony by turning the crank. One day, as Newton sat reading in his study with his mechanism on a large table near him, his infidel friend stopped in. He was scientist enough to recognize at a glance what was before him. Stepping up to it he turned the crank slowly, and with undistinguished admiration watched the heavenly bodies all move in the relative speed in their orbits. Standing off a few feet, he exclaimed, “My! What an exquisite thing this: Who made it?”

Without looking up from his book, Newton answered, “Nobody!” Quickly turning to Newton the infidel said, “Evidently you did not hear my question. I asked who made this thing?” Looking up now, Newton solemnly assured him that nobody made it, but the aggregation of matter he so much admired, had just happened to assume the form it was in. But the astonished infidel replied with some heat, “You must think I’m a fool! Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius, and I’d like to know who he is.”

Laying his book aside, Newton arose and laid a hand on his friend’s shoulder and said: “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker: yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without a designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusion?” The infidel was at once convinced and became a firm believer that “Yahweh is God”.
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