New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-01
WHY SCIENCE CANNOT FIND GOD.
SCIENCE NEVER CAN DEMONSTRATE THE NON
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EXISTENCE OF GOD.
Science cOnfessedly never has demonstrated,
and never can demonstrate the nonexistence Of God
As hypothesis that always keeps Its place. Science
tends to deny this. 1t never disproves It, However
deep 1t goes. it cannot affirm certainly concerning
that 1t resolves everything into Hypothetical
atoms, undiscoverable, found, impossible to be
come upon by any proper tests 1t arms the cOrrela
ton of forces, showing how motion Is arrested for
example, IS transmitted into heat, and heat certainly
conducts to light and electricity 1t airns the per-
sistence of the force it thus unfes. and
thus its destruction 1t HINTS suggests,
does not affirm the identity Of the animal
force which operates IN organized nature There
Vegetable or animal life have arisen by evolution from
one n few prn0rdal germs, under the law OF natural
70 make the affirmation OF personal god
to exclude him from the universe which he Is supposed
lightning or other force be identified with the
power in man. Science and Psychology n are
after all, to face the question whence they come.
Because sorrow is accompanied by tears It does not
God phosphorus, add one may carry Him about In his
pocket No back Of the force the germ the atom, is
omnia eremnt" Whence comes the force of tue germ
How the atoms to be astirf Let us consider the
argument for God
THE ARGUMENTS FOR GOD
First the belief In his universal and what
ia universal belief has the force OF law OF nature.
This belief alike in the savage and the highly
civilized. We see it in the kneeling attitude Of the
sleepers the Pyramids in that altar to the Unknown
God and in the most refined and enlightened life Of the
latest civilization Tue soul has II sunk into Itself that
II is incorporated spiritual subtances. But this
mpersOnalness In the soul implies pers0naness IN
His who made 1t. Anthropomorphism Is inevitable
when it refers the origin of mans nature to God 1t
becomes blasphemOus when 1t attributes to God the
character Of man. A personal God is the necessary
correlation Of personal soul
in every man says Thou shalt and thou shalt not"
a certain moral order which must serve and not
implies a personal being to whom We are re-
sponsible-e being knowing US and our af-
fairs, circumstances and motives, who though
pleased to reveal himself 10 this law within
there is instinct Of the inrnite In every mind II Is
the glory Of carry this so strong In early
EVERY te; great 'e s1cite%ens Of the human soul
This testimony Of the soul Of the moral nature and Of
Of instincts TramPed on des2laes by the
bOodest evolution TINS Is the highest part
God that part Is al enigna eyes without light lungs
We see. recently, the evidence Of purpose. However
much this may be objected TO. II viii ever remain
invisible among the masses, and be the more cop
yincing because found In minds not refined half
way We enfer this church and infer an architect;
and infer
aud infer genius Of the hihest cultures land t were
Church, type foundry explosion the poem. battle OF
winds the symphony. than that the universe has no
the Atomic Philosophy. without mind back Of It, the
profoundest absurdity.W
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ing to something better 70 as absurd TO suppose that
or sH' RS%.n
made Europe present civilization TO suppose that
Of Arctic and Tropic winds could have made the
We sse fourtniy. the scriptures coming to assert
Ing :n sxpsnston Of all things in him. and s Il Ia
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