THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE
Sir,-it. is regrettable that you saw fit to conclude an otherwise thoughtful editorial, "The Mysterious Universe," with a comparison between "the patient investigations of science’ and "the inspired guesses of religious thinkers" in connection with the nature and destiny of man and the origin of the universe. The comparison is so obviously one-eyed that it lays you open to a charge of materialistic bias. The patient investigations of religious thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas would rather more than hold their own with some of the inspired guesses of modern scientists, including those of Mr. Hoyle. Indeed, if the ultimate nature of man belongs to a world beyond the world of matter, as you suggest in saying that man "through consciousness . . . receives the muted pulse of a creativeness outside the nebulae," then such questions are far more properly the field of trained theologians than of new cosmologists with a persuasive delivery before the
microphone.
EX
NIHIL
(Huntly).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 5
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159THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 5
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