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x ia guises come from tha animal's glands and ate tong area wholly automatic. The make-up. of an animal allows no room for freedom of choite, searching curiosity or doubt or conflict between impulses and a@ihical standards. An anima! finows nothing of thal strange voice called conscience, which fella ux what is right and what ig wrong. Only Mankind is equipped with the conflicts which arise, becaves Hie created in God's tmaga. And only Mankind ie equipped with a seul which enables #40 master the problems caused by these conflicts. * Today, thousands af acientisis ere at work ge the most momentous task Mankind has ever faced: an attempt to wnderstand a physical Universe which is wmending in time and space, complicated in its detall and impressive in its orderliness, and to undersiand ite origin and how it functions, % ie no longer & sufficient explanation of the aims of acience to say ihat it eeeks to find the physical fawe which govern the Universe and increases Man- hind’s control over it, because acience's field of enGeavour has increased in gize. The basic elements of acience are collective experiences, observations and the getting of certain goals at which to sim. From these the ecientist ties fo make a model of time, Proportions and cause. When one gains new knowledge the old model is acl rejected, ft is. fust attered where the new knowledge pointe to an alter- ation. By reason of the fact that the scientist is willing to alter hia mods! of the Universe; he shows. that he dows mot demand to know the final truth. Mis scisniific laws are at most only re-writings of the observations ha has made. : The laws of science do not control the ceality but attempts only to explain it. Therefore the laws can be altered when ong attains new knowledge. NEW AIMS. . The tasks which acience sets itself are nover-eod- wg For truth ig mo slatic concept. For avery new answer arnved at, a dozan new concepts come ito view. Science stands before new Trontiere in many fisids of endeavour: the nucleus of the etom becomes mora and more enigmatic ~ the origin and compasition of ine Universa is ctill shrouded in mysiery — the inner functions of fiving orgeniams stil allow of no es- planation. Science's Golden Age lies shead of us. The ecienlist works in an atmosphere where doubt i on accepled fact of tile and esaggersted ortho- doy. taboo. Themes Husley ways of the scientiet: “For him ecepticiem is a firat duty end blind faith an unforgivable sin”. A result of scientific progress & that traditions, which are the buttresses of. faith, save been swept aside, The sciences and religion have therefore often collided. And yast it is ona of the tragedies of our time thei science and teligion wave become adversaries. Because to achieve a wol- tion of the conflict it has been tempting to adopt « wlicy of peacelyl co-anisignes, to divide our ax- — afo contact — 131 Periences inic two different areas, te give if te control over the one and religion control over the other. Let science explore the physical world, whilst religion takes tare of the ether, prople say. When Science haa reached its limits, then religion can take over and explain that which allows of to explanation. This is a fateful step to take. To separate the tec worlds sould only be done # acientista wera pot Christians. and no Christians were scientists. But science and religion do not teign ower two eeparate kingdome. INVISIBLE. Ht is not possible to build a wall between religion end science. Gradually, as science is enabled to ax- plain some of the mystaries of the Universe it comes into arene which were previously unknown or only ectepted on a basis of faith. . Every new experience - physical or spiritual ~ suat fit into. a patiom which gives both faith and mean- ing. It is Mankind that explores the Universe, exper- iments, and seeks for the truth, it is not just a detail, it takes part itealf in the process of creation. dan- kind itself is the greatest resull of the Creation. The fect thet mors and more of the wonders of Creation are. being discloued is of direct concam te Mankind. Science and religion can be compared with two windows. in a house, through which we can observe the world around us or our neighbours. (There are other windows te be found in the house: Art, Lite tature. and History). Whatever we may see through the windows. of this imaginary houses, Ht must fit. in with the model we have of the Universe and cur Pisce wm it. Where it dogs met fit, we must alter the modal, alter Our aim and try to incresss Gur ability te wnder- sland the Creation. ta our modem sociely it would appear that many People think that the advances made by acience have caveed. such things as eligious belief ta be- come sut-of-place and old-fashioned. Thay cannot understand why we should “believe in something, when écience can tell vs thet we “know” so much. The simple. answer te thie assertion i that we are aware of more of nature's mysterist today than poopie ware before the advent of scientific reagacch., There ia absoluigly no resson to believe that God cannot retain His. place in our modem. Gmas in the game way as before wa began io ezamine Hie Crae- tion with telescope and ion-scceleratare. Even though science is no religion, # is, by nature of ite assumptions, He application and its search for the truth, & religious function. The Crestor reveals Himeelf through His Creations. Ay Charies A. Coul- son says: "Science belps us to create 2 picture of God". We must remember that ecience only exists because there sre people, and its concepts exist only in people's whderstanding. Behind these con- cepls lies reality, which God can reveal to us,