The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

1x0SCIENCE AND RELIGION.entific men share in the experience, as well asothers, -by the general and well- groundedexpectation of the unceasing advance of science,that it is peculiarly easy in sight of agreat general problem such as the origin andgovernment of the world, to overlook the significanceof ultimate conclusions in given directions.In this way, we too readily fallinto the delusive tendency of regarding accreditedconclusions as still hanging in ameasure of uncertainty, or at least as havinga dubious future before them, because theyborder upon the region of the unknown so faras science is concerned, or upon a realm ofmystery, which science regards either withaversion, or with cherished determination ofattack. In the present singularly favorableposition of science, it is impossible for thepublic mind to escape this tendency; but .itbecomes only the more imperative to distinguishas occasion offers, those conclusionswhich are to be taken a.s final. This is ofimmense consequence as bearing upon generalconceptions concerning the universe.That matter can not be originated, and cannotf by even a single atom be destroyed, isone of those ultimate statements, upon which