Who can refute a sneer?

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

I refute it thus.

Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too!

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.