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Show . u . SCIENCE AFFIRMS THE CREATIVE POWER. Lord Kelvin, the distinguished scientist, sci-entist, in moving a vote of thanks to Professor Henslow for his lecture before be-fore the University College Christian association, in London, demurred to the professor's assertion that, with regard re-gard to the origin . of life, science neither affirmed nor denied the creative crea-tive power. On the contrary, he said, science positively affirmed the creative crea-tive power. Science made every one feel that he was a miracle in himslef. Modern biologists were once more coming to tho firm acceptance of a vital principle. They had been absolutely abso-lutely forced by science to admit and believe in a directive power. 'Was there," ' he asked, "anything so absurd as to believe that a number of atoms falling together of their own accord could make a crystal sprig of moss, the microbe of a living animal? Nobody could think that anything like that even in millions and millions of years could, unaided, give us a beautiful beau-tiful world like ours. Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism, criti-cism, but with freedom we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic, but is a help, to religion."- |