220 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



the gentleman opposite me exposed the fact that he 

 too had recently read this account of Jeffreys in the 

 press. He admitted that even this popular article 

 was too technical for his understanding. If there 

 was a lingering doubt that there was modesty in such 

 a statement it was quickly dispelled when he remarked, 

 "Anyway, I believe that the world was created in six 

 days. Yes, six real days, such as we know them now." 

 I confess my surprise that in a supposedly intelligent 

 group of this sort one should find an individual on 

 the under side of forty with so stereotyped an in- 

 tellect. I wonder if, like the poor, the fundamentalists 

 are always with us, and I have grave doubts whether 

 or not we can do them any good. 



The recent advances of modern science have gone 

 far to make untenable the crude materialistic doctrines 

 of a generation ago, but provide fertile soil for an 

 intelligent religion that can give, I think, some mean- 

 ing to existence in an all but infinite cosmic scheme. 



When one reflects on the damages wrought by fun- 

 damentalism on the creative religious outlook, one 

 often wonders if the problem propounded by a great 

 religious teacher, that a man's foes shall be they of his 

 own household, is not applicable in the religious realm. 



Quite on the opposite side of the picture we meet 

 also now as always, the self-styled free thinker, who 

 appears to guide his intellectual process by avoid- 

 ance of all recognised doctrine as though the path to 

 creative thinking was to be obtained merely by the 

 avoidance of all recognised intellectual hazards. 

 Such a type of mind eagerly grasps for the latest dis- 

 coveries of the scientist to capitalize a pet doctrine in 

 mechanism, whose premise is the doctrine of chance, 



