84 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



ened by names. No, we have not strayed from the 

 highway of truth into this morass by following sound 

 reason, but evidently by faulty mental processes that 

 will not bear the test of actual experience. The only 

 remedy and substitute for poor reasoning is better 

 reasoning and not its total elimination. 



Science Not Responsible 



We have not departed from the highway of truth 

 by accepting the teachings of natural science regarding 

 the immensity of nature and the smallness of man. 

 The sciences of astronomy, geology and biology have 

 so enormously enlarged our views of the universe that 

 space and time have become practically infinite and the 

 days of creation have become billions of years. This 

 enlargement of nature has led to a corresponding 

 shrinkage of man when measured by standards of 

 space and time, but when measured by reason, con- 

 science, aspirations, it is a different story. For the first 

 time in the long history of life on this planet there has 

 appeared in man a being capable, to a certain extent, 

 of understanding and measuring this wonderful uni- 

 verse and of controlling some of its processes. By this 

 measure man is not an insignificant creature. Isaac 

 Watts expressed this well when he wrote: 



Were I so tall to reach the pole, 

 Or grasp the ocean with my span, 

 I must be measured by my soul ; 

 The mind's the standard of the man. 



And the Psalmist expressed it still better when he 

 said: 



When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the 

 moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man 



