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

CONDITIONS OF TKE INQUIRY. 25of theologians and also of scientific observers.In fact, there is at every fresh advance inscience, much thinlcing to be done, after observationand exposition have accomplishedtheir partl and this thinking can not bequickly done.Towards a clear marking out of the boundariesof science and religion, it is needfulthat some definition or description of both beattempted. It is easy to be religious withoutsharply marking off for one's self the exactboundaries of religion; and equally easy to bescientific, without exactly laying down thelimits of science. But any intelligent viewof the relations of the two is not to be hadwithout caref~~lly marking off the territorywhich they respectively occupy. Science atleast should seek for itself " a scientific boundary,"and though this is not always easilyfound, it is essential for keeping up friendlyrelations with neighboring states. In view,therefore, of the requirements of the presentsubject, something must here be done in theway of definition, or at least, description, delicateand difficult as is the task.The object of these lectures is, to vindicatethe place of the Christian religion within the