SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25552, 3 June 1944, Page 8

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Sir, —We read in this morning’s issue of the Daily Times that Professor J. B. Haldane, an eminent British scientist, has been broadcasting from London to a conference in Sydney. In his book, “ The Philosophy of a Biologist,” he writes thus: “Tiie general conclusions reached may be summed up in the statement that the real universe is a universe of personality and a manifestation of God, the scientific aspects being only partial interpretations of it.” Sir Arthur Eddington, a name well known in our time in the scientific realm, in "New Pathways in Science,” writes: “ Ten years ago every physicist of repute was, or believed himself to be, a determinist. Then rather suddenly determinism faded out of theoretical physics, and it provoked a reconsideration of the most perplexing problems of our existence.” A speaker at a recent meeting in London pointed out that “ something happened in the scientific world a little while, ago which led scientists to scrap their theories and begin over again. . . .” He stated that “ Professor Haldane was a biologist, and Sir Arthur Eddington a mathematician, and the two were poles apart in their studies and methods, but as scientists, both were out to catch seme glimpse of truth, and they announced that they saw a universe of personality and of the manifestation of God, and fatalism, and all else like it, had faded out.” The foregoing vindicates the Bible. Through the kinema it has been discovered that an arrow precedes the lightning. An arrow-head of darker electric particles could be plainly seen going in front of the flash as though* making a way for it. The arrows of the Almighty are mentioned in many places in the Old Testament.—I am, etc.,

Maran-atha,