SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
SOME PERTINENT REMARKS. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. ] u his address to the Students Conference at Trentham, the Rev. A. Dewdney, of Wellington, touched upon a topic of general interest when lie dealt with science and Christianity. He observed that many of the most eminent savants were Christians. and this, he argued, was a sufficient refutation of Haeckel s assertion tiiat faith was. one of the greatest barriers to science Iheic was no doubt, however, that the attitude of orthodox Christianity to scientific investigation lmd often been unreasonable. The Church had no authority to pronounce pulgment on scientific questions. Tlu man nt science, on the other hand, must le member that as such lie had no moie riiVht to pronounce on religions questions: Scientific men, T ’ speciality of one subject, might 10.,e the faculty of religion. The specialist must ever keep in remembrance ’'aa,,.. world. Christianity had the wide investigations science 1° Certain details, of the i creeds might have to be revised, but ’ tjie essentials would remain-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 31 December 1907, Page 3
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172SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 31 December 1907, Page 3
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