CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE
“'God spoke and speaks to us by His prophets and among them are the men of science of to-day,” said the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, in an address in a London church. The dualism in Christianity was not that of the natural and the supernatural, but of the natural and the spiritual. The spiritual was an emergent from the biological, just as the living was an emergent from the non-living. All such emergencies were part of the creative activity of God. Christianity, insisted that the world was not an allusion, and that man could attain to an even greater apprehension of truth. Because truth was one of the fundamental values of the universe, man must seek it. In this Christianity and science were at one. It was no accident that science flourished in an environment created by post-Renaissance Christian belief. Guiding the affairs of life there was some unity of creative power. He could not think of God fashioning man as a workman makes a machine; there must bo some ground of union common to God and man. This ground of union made possible alike man’s approach to God in prayer and God’s response, and it made intelligible the unique nearness of Christ to God. Christ’s coming was within the scheme of God’s continuous revelation of Himself.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 8 January 1935, Page 8
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