74 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



soul the result of chemical and physical actions, and 

 for a time this tendency promised to destroy religion, 

 root and branch. This now seems far less probable 

 than It did forty years ago. The most wonderful 

 phenomenon of one's experience in this supremely 

 wonderful universe is mind and personality, directing, 

 controlling, creating. Even the evidences of purpose 

 or end and gradual development In this universe are 

 not more astonishing. No theory of this cosmos' can 

 be adequate which does not give some theory or hy- 

 pothesis for the occurrence of these two remarkable 

 factors. I personally can conceive no hypothesis for 

 all this which seems so simple and satisfactory, so ade- 

 quate, so In accord with existing methods of scientific 

 inference, as those conclusions which we commonly 

 term religion. 



Now in such a religion of a scientist, a religion 

 which reasons merely from analogy or probability, it 

 Is true, but a religion whose strongest argument comes 

 from the Infinite complexity of the whole and Its ap- 

 parently infinite size and grandeur, the more one 

 knows, the more accurate will be one's appreciation 

 and acceptance, whatever may be the ultimate decision 

 as to the validity either of the known facts, the de- 

 duced laws, or the reasoning processes involved. Just 

 as my cosmos Is Infinitely more complex and more 

 wonderful than that of the ancient Hebrew, so much 

 the more true and convincing is my appreciation be- 

 cause It Is based upon a knowledge which is more com- 

 plete. In this light, the Increased knowledge of the 

 physical universe which has been given by modern 

 science must be regarded as the main Inspiration and 

 support of a sane and reasoned religious belief. 



