RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 10

RELIGION AND SCIENCE

NO REASON FOR HOSTILITY

(By Telegraph:) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day

"Of (ho manner of Creation we know very little, for a God whom we could completely understand would not be a God," said Canon Archdall, Principal of King's College, preaching at St. Mary's Cathedral to a congregation which included a number of delegates to the Science Congress.

"Wo aro on the stage of life and have no reason to demand that we should bo admitted behind the scenes. We cannot know the full story of the path of Creation descending from God, but tho world is a solid fact,which we have to accept rather than account for, and in which we have to seek to play a worthy part. There is no reason for hostility between religion and science and art. We shall be harmoniously developed men in proportion as we can make our own something of what the saint, the scientist, and the artist respectively find in their experience of the life eternal. Tho values of goodness, truth, and beauty arc not entirely separate from each other. They intertwine and help each other. "Many are the benefits conferred by science, not merely on man generally in the matter of civilisation, but specifically on religion. When such a sound general attitude is developed, tho way will be open to a fresh discovery of truth, the which, after all, laid the foundations of European civilisation, and which St, Paul gives in the text, 'In Christ are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledgo hidden.' " '