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entirely change, but the amount remains constant 

 — How transformed energy gives us the bread of 

 life. . . . Forms of life teem with new possibili- 

 ties — Newness may be fresh orientation — New dis- 

 coveries mean increased mastery for man. . . . 

 Scientific knowledge as distinguished from non- 

 scientific — Scientific knowledge must be partial and 

 abstract — We cannot deny that feeling and obedi- 

 ence are rights of way towards reality — Other 

 riches of wisdom. . . . Science deals to-day in 

 terms of Matter, Energy, Life and Mind — The 

 impersonality of science — Why the scientific answer 

 cannot be the last word on the subject. . . . 

 Questions science never asks — Science and religion 

 must be consistent, but have different aims — How 

 advancing science modifies religious ideas. . . . 

 Visions of spiritual reality — Religious activity may 

 be intellectual, emotional, practical — It sends ten- 

 drils out into an unseen world — Most men need 

 religious faith to make sense of their world — That 

 some do not, means no more than that some people 

 are color-blind — In many ways the Nature- 

 Psalmists were a long ways ahead of us — Religion 

 not simply a human edifice — Its center is in a spir- 

 itual reality — That the Supreme Reality is an il- 

 lusion, does not fit the facts of history — When a 

 picture, as that of the reality of an atom, fits the 

 facts it is not an illusion — Other changes besides 

 the scientific one are changing our thought of 

 God. . . . First, the negative changes — How the 

 first cause is pushed further and further back — 

 Nature and God greater than our thoughts — A 

 great fact of life is its adaptiveness — Paley's idea 

 of the world as the work of a Divine Artificer — 

 But the coming of Creative Purpose was better — 

 It is a big thought that the fabric of the universe 

 is fashioned from four threads: matter, radia- 

 tions, life, mind — The three orders of facts com- 

 prising the universe — Can God be a summary of 

 all the physical and spiritual powers of the uni- 

 verse at the same time? — The search for a finite 

 God not justified. . . . To many minds science, 

 in itself, is indicative of divine purpose — Not 

 much gained by saying, "The laws of nature are 

 the thoughts of God" — We know as yet very few 

 of the laws of nature. . . . Darwin taught us to 

 regard the Creator as the Author of Evolution — 

 Let us forget the unreal phrase, "fortuitous con- 

 course of atoms" — The grand conception of the 

 Creator of an orderly, progressive, beautiful world 

 — Astronomy sees the Cosmos the expression of a 

 supremely mathematical Mind; the biologist sees 



