28 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



tion with its highly organized group life found that it 

 could not possibly develop without it. And if this is 

 so, the future is certainly going to need the essentials 

 of Christianity even more than the past has needed 

 them. 



In other words, the job that the churches in the past 

 have been in the maiu trying to do, and the job that, I 

 think, in spite of their weakness and follies, they have 

 in the main succeeded in doing fairly well ; namely, the 

 job of developing the consciences, the ideals and the 

 aspirations of mankind, must be done by some agency 

 in the future even more effectively than it has been 

 done in the past. 



There are two ways in which this can be done: 

 First, by destroying organized religion as Russia re- 

 cently has been attempting to do, and building upon 

 its ruins some other organization which will carry on 

 the work that the church has in the main done in the 

 past, some other organization which will embody the 

 essentials of religion, but be free from its faults. The 

 second way is to assist organized religion as it now 

 exists to eliminate its faults and to be more effective 

 in emphasizing and in spreading, with ever-increasing 

 vigor, its essentials. 



The Idea that God, or Nature, or the Universe, 

 whatever term you prefer, is not a being of caprice 

 and whim as had been the case in all the main body 

 of thinking of the ancient world; but is, instead, a God 

 who rules through law, or a nature capable of being 

 depended upon, or a universe of consistency, or order- 

 liness and of the beauty that goes with the order — 

 that idea has made modern science, and it is unques- 

 tionably the foundation of modern civilizations. 



