One of the terms that has recently been coined as a result of scientific discoveries and inventiveness in technology is Remote Control,- control from a distance without any material link, a method now frequently used with great success in a wide diversity of fields. The signals are sent from a base control point in coded form, to any machine or vehicle which has to be operated in a situation where manning or wire links prove impossible, for example in moving vehicles, aeroplanes, space probes and so on. As a rule, receivers remain operative all of the twenty-four hours so that, for example, in a space flight, defects or aberrations may be immediately monitored and rectified.

It is regrettable that this remarkable, high-precision invention should also have become a tool for terrorists. It has given them hitherto inconceivable opportunities for committing murder and mayhem, and holding governments and individuals alike to ransom, thereby causing untold distress. The bomb which was exploded with such disastrous results near the motorcar of the Emir of Kuwait on the 25th of May 1985 was operated by remote control.

But whether we view this system in a positive or negative way, it serves as a fine analogy to a great but unseen reality: God's invisible control of the expanding universe. When divine instrumentality is grasped as being on a parallel with remote control, it becomes more understandable and explicable in terms of purely human inventiveness.