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OUTLOOK CHANGER

SCIENCE AND RELIGION. ELIMINATING differences. “The public mind is still largely dominated *by ian amalgam of emotion and Victorian science, and most people aro ignorant of the vast changes in scientific outlook now occurring, changes which are making it intich easier to be both scientific and religions/’ said the Rev. H. K. Archdall, headmaster of King’s College, at the Town Hall concert chamber last evening when he ?.ave the third of the series oif addresses arranged by the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations. Sir George Richardson presided over a large attendance.

The speaker referred to the marvellous advance in (scientific knowledge as the outstanding fact about our age. Yet we were suffering from cultural • disorders, which threatened the very existence of our civilisation. This w% due largely to over.confident specialisms and to the fact that the natural sciences had received more attention than the social sciences. But we were fioW entering on an age of. reconstruction i\, giceitce, as in many other aspects of life;

It was desirable first tb ibalise tliit a classification Of the sciences liras »cce§sary K o that people could Uhdevstaiid the relative validity of the Ideas employed in the different sciences. Otherwise the splendid tools which the sciences gave us might, like machinery, crush Vis rather than emancipate u». The lecturer dealt with the meaning of evolution and contended that it was foolish of some religious people to fancy that the idea of evolution wa s necessarily against religion. The trouble was not with the scientists, but with halfbaked philosophy. ’ which fancied that out of primordial proto-dasm with fixed and change'ei-s environment all the splendour of the world could be accounted for.

Th e search for the ultimate principle of co-relation in the universe was not finished by any of the sciences, continued the speaker. The huma.n mind would sink 'back, overshadowed by the vefitness of nature, unless it found itself in the world of spirit, to which we found ourselves inevitably introduced In our experience of the absolute valiles of truth, beauty and goodness. Thb sten into a belief in this world of spirit was a matter of (faith, but Iso wag every step the series of the sciences by which the mind of m-m rose from .an abstraction to a point of view more concrete, to explanation which took account of more of our experiences. Tf there' was » science of faith, there was talso a faith of science. A r l the fundamental ideas used in science, such as continuity and unity, were examples of such faith. It. was the creative efiect of belief in God as the source and origin of the worlds of fact and of value that made religious faith the most rational act a man could reform, In conclusion, Mr Archdall printed put, the many service,*, to religion wh'-h science had rendered, and did render, and said that civilsation could r.niy be healthy when we made our own ot something which the saint, the reiontist and the artist found in experience. He quoted extensively from volts of men of iscience and ended by fueling ‘Whitehead’s (statement from his ; ook "Science in the Mode n World,” to th? effect that the fact <»« re! -•‘(■us \ ision and its history of persistent ■ xpausion j wasf-our one ground of optimism.

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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 2

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OUTLOOK CHANGER Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 2

OUTLOOK CHANGER Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1933, Page 2

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