78 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



Conflict Between Fundamentalism and Modernism 



Between science and religion as so defined and un- 

 derstood there is and can be no more conflict than be- 

 tween Intellect and emotion, or science and art. But 

 between the conservative and the radical type of mind, 

 between the theologian and the scientist there often is 

 conflict. The conflict between fundamentalism and 

 modernism centers largely in the nature, origin and 

 purpose of the Bible. The conflicts between theology 

 and the natural sciences have been caused in large part 

 by the doctrine that the Bible Is a divine revelation 

 regarding nature as well as religion. 



These conflicts in the past have involved the science 

 of astronomy with Its teachings as to the position and 

 movements of the earth and planets in the solar sys- 

 tem; with meteorology as to the causes of seasons, 

 winds, rain, lightning, the rainbow, etc.; with geology 

 concerning the age of the earth, the meaning of fos- 

 sils, catastrophism versus uniformitarianism. But the 

 most serious of all these conflicts have been over the 

 teachings of biology regarding the germinal origin of 

 the Individual, the natural origin of species, the nature 

 of life and the nature and origin of man. Many Chris- 

 tians believe that biology Is the Judas among the 

 sciences; all the sciences may have forsaken their Lord, 

 but biology has betrayed him. 



The Old Cosmogony and Theology 

 Let us in a sympathetic and constructive spirit try 

 to understand both sides of the age-old controversy 

 between conservatism and radicalism; between funda- 

 mentalism and modernism. The old cosmogony, phi- 



