RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF SCIENTISTS

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 404, 14 October 1911, Page 5

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF SCIENTISTS

A work has recently been published in England with tin- title "Religious Beliefs of Scientists." It contains about one hundred hitherto unpubissnee letters on science and e;stinguished scientists cnibvteu i\v e member of the North London Gknstian Evidence League, who asked two questions: (1) "Is there any reel conflict between the facts of science rein the fundamentals of Christianity:

(2) "Has it been your experience to ! find men of science irreligious ana anti-Christian : r ' Lour presidents of the Roval Society replied Sir George Stokes! Lord Kelvin. Lord Lister, and Lord Raleigh. Not one oi them pives t tie slightest justification tor the athiesticai assertions which immrcd the inquiry: quite the contrary. Sir George Stokes, for example, said be knew of no sound conclusions of science that were oppose;] to the Christian religion; and it. was not his experience to line that the p:e.»!,s! scientists were irreligious, i.oid Kelvin replied in almost menimai terms: while Lord Lister bad to Mentation in declaring thai, in his opinion there was no mifagomsm between 'ihe religion of Jesus Christ aim .any tact. scientifically established. The greet phvsicist and mathemat mum. Loin Raleigh, holds thai Cm religion neither are nor can be oppose;:. Mr William Ramsay says that between the essential truths of Chi is I iamt y and the establisbeo facts c\ science there is no reahmtaeoniem ; Mr Henry Roscoe points out thai many eminent men of science are good churchmen ; while Sir Oliver Lodge, in his famous Catechism, uses these words: "1 believe in one Infinite and Eternal being, a guiding and loving Father, m Whom ail things consist. 1 believe that the Divine Nature L specialty reveled to man through .L ens Ohr.ef our Lord." Lioioigsts like Lrofossor Thompson ami rro.cssor (■odues; zoolorrists like Sedgwick and Carpenter; anatomists like Turner. Collins and Church; and a host c( ethers of | equal eminence all hear ilmir iesinmonv to the Godhead. In the who's I of the replies received by Mr I not one man of science avowed hi nisei! jan athiesi. and, with perhaps two donbifu! exceptions, there wen m> vowls of agnosticism. Church, Gazette.