4 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



the line of contact between man and the unknown ele- 

 ments in the cosmos. Knowledge and mystery have 

 always had a habit of appearing hand in hand, and 

 to-day we are beginning to suspect that the mind of 

 man is incapable of grappling with ultimate reality in 

 any truly scientific way. There may be in the cosmos 

 that which can actually be termed the Absolute, but all 

 we know is Relative. We are in the midst of a process 

 of change, of transformation of matter and energy, a 

 process which reveals no suggestion of any real begin- 

 ning, no prospect of any truly final end. Perhaps that 

 process is, after all. Reality itself. 



The better the events in that process are understood, 

 the more significant they are. For each event is a 

 means of insight into the nature of the motive powers 

 operating in and through the world in which we live. 

 The administration of the universe is revealed by 

 what it has accomplished in the past and by its present 

 activities. In other words, the characteristics of real- 

 ity are to be discovered by observing behavior. Be- 

 havior Is the clue to any adequate understanding of the 

 transformations of matter and of energy. It is the 

 behavior of human beings which gives us knowledge 

 concerning the nature of men. It is the behavior of 

 cosmic forces which provides an insight into the real 

 characteristics and qualities of the motive power of the 

 universe. 



The results of the long-continued action and inter- 

 action of cosmic forces are in part recorded in the 

 rocks of the earth's crust. The tattered and frayed 

 pages of Mother Earth's diary cover a period of well 

 on toward two billion years. The major events in that 

 long history are now fairly well known. From them 



