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a single answer to the relation of modern physical 

 science to religion — Scientists no longer think of 

 God as merely chemical and physical action — 

 Mind and personality is the most wonderful phe- 

 nomena of all — Religion the most simple and satis- 

 fying hypothesis for experience — Our cosmos is 

 more wonderful than that of the ancient Hebrews; 

 and in equal proportion our knowledge and ex- 

 perience is more complete — The physical universe 

 as we know it to-day is religion's chief inspiration 

 and support. 



A Biologist's Religion by Edwin G. 



Conklin . . . . . -75 



Religion represents the conservative element, sci- 

 ence the progressive — Conflict occurs between the 

 conservative and the radical types of mind — The 

 most serious conflict, over the teaching of biol- 

 ogy — The old cosmogony — The perfect creation — 

 No longer possible to think that m.an was made 

 perfect. . , . When youth loses faith — A Biologist's 

 creed of unbelief — Mark Twain's philosophy of 

 despair — Yet he worked for human better- 

 ment. . . . When one asks, "What is the use of 

 eflfort?" — Impossible to live a philosophy of ne- 

 gation and suicide — Trust the logic of events — In 

 science the test of truth is appeal to fact — The 

 test of philosophy and religion is: Can it be 

 lived? . . . Reason does not lead into the slough 

 of despond — Even revelation must subject itself to 

 reason — The old war cry against rationalism no 

 longer satisfies — Faulty mental processes have led 

 us into this morass. . . . The immensity of nature 

 and the smallness of man not an untruth — Man is 

 small compared to immensities of space and time; 

 but reason, conscience, aspiration have attained 

 greater measure — According to Isaac Watts and 

 the Psalmist. . . . Development from germ cells 

 has not degraded man — All the great leaders were 

 once babies and germ cells — Not man's origin, but 

 what he is and may be, the criterion of his dig- 

 nity — Evolution deals with processes, not ultimate 

 causation — Faith transcends science. , . . Gravity 

 and evolution do not drive God out of the uni- 

 verse — Order indicates a cosmos as against a 

 chaos — Science, applied to man, does not destroy 

 his freedom or responsibility — These values are 

 relative, not absolute. . . . Science and scholarship 

 do not trust ecclesiasticism and literalism — Science 

 cannot accept the fact of finality, anywhere — The 

 theory of a chance universe, more than any other 



