Show J H Ti Increasing F Faith ith l fJ S' S SCIENCE is the great destroyer of fit But once in iii a great whiTe while science aban aban- this role and instead stands as the i 7 j great reat protector of illusions And when this Arif if Ef happens we should give thanks For man manI I f lives by illusions The naked facts of the universe universe universe uni- uni uni- uni verse or such of them as as' as we are able to grasp are re too bi and severe fi to be lived with r comfortably by most of us So we take refuge in iri our illusions drawing drawing them them about us j to make the world seem a little tittle smaller more friendly frendly and less appalling First FirstS we believed that our earth was the center enter of all created things with a a. a sky that 4 f fitted down around the rims Jike a an an upturned bowl 1 and nd a sun about the size of a cartwheel can can- wheel that was hauled across the firmament by thoughtful divi divinities Science exploded plod ex-plod- ed ed that faith and ind nd left us swinging s alone lone in fn m a aT T cold dark immensity of empty space It tore down other beliefs one by one and made madeI I very unhappy skeptics out of a great many V tood 9 d people But now the pendulum swings i I- I he other way J Our most cherished belief has always f t been en th the pathetic groping faith that we individually indi- indi count for something something- in a world out out- side O own our that we we are 3 e n not left here on an tn Isolated planet to live forgotten lives and then t die ie for forever ver but that s somehow somewhere we ri- ri will Vill live again This faith has been weakened weaken d of late To many of us it t has h-as seemed emed that r science has knocked too many props prop's out from under us It has been hard to cling ding to the old certainties in the face of these m men en with their i microscopes their test tubes and and th their i t tele- tele le le- le fa 4 scopes L Here however is where sC science ste steps ps in ina I a W as a protector rather than a destroyer For t kj with wider knowledge we cannot deny any any- I l oo even ng-even even immortality immortality surely The more 7 science discovers about this world of ours ours- r- r 51 the he more does the scientist realize that no hard hards i. i s and fast conclusion about it c can n ever be drawn i The atheist who cries there is no God and there is no soul is taking a l lot more for granted than any other man in iii the world The scientist learns that all matter from the grain of sand t to the mountain of granite g and the spring breeze is compos composed d of the same J stuff stuff of of infinitely small ele electron rons which on ont I t examination appear to be nothing but charges H of bf f electricity i He learns that th his strongest telescope cannot cannot cannot can- can not reach the bounda boundaries ies of space space- not though f ft it itcan can fund find stars whose light rays mys traveling at at t miles a second have been five million mil mil- lion years ears in reaching us He learns that i creation is a continuous us process going on now k in the space about us as vigorously vi and eter- eter jjr l L nally as it did when the stars were young kAnd And nd in J ce of this can an one deny utterly I teethe the soul u 1 No Such knowledge brings humility But it it also brings the certitude that nothing that j ver was made was made in vain win that there I k Is a plan so far beyond our power of conception conception con con- ept on that denial is foolish that th the power that hurls the meteor across the skies and nd sets 1 a million st stars rs spinning in ti the e dark is also alsot t capable of hearing a litle childs child's laugh and stopping to l pay lY heed to the strivings and j f of f s ns of tf men I I J t |