The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-23
POPULAR APoLoeETlcs.
Adapted from the German of Rev.
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev.
James Watcher.
XVIII. Belief in Coda Product of
Ignorance.

objection: 1.-THE unintelligible in
nature was the reason for the rise
of the belief of God Wherever a
knowledge of the phenomena of ma
ture arose, as far as that is possible,
this faith, founded on mere specula-
ton, had of course to disappear. -.
For those who are most ignorant Tin
natural science) and too lazy to think
faith in God is an easy way of explain
ing natural phenomena" Schneider,
Der tierische Willie, p. 1882
Answer: ~. This compliment
Professor Schneider, a pupil of Haec-
KEEL, bestows on the great believing
scientists of the past and present,
the latchet of whose shoes he is not
worthy to loose.
According to him there are those
who are too lazy to think, for ex-
ample:
In Mathematics: Euler, Gauss,
Cauchy, Puiseux, Hermitte, Weier-
strass, Laplace-all believers in God;
In Astronomy: Kopernicus, Kepler,
Tycho, Brahe, Newton, Herschel fla
Their and SOM, Piazzi Oriani, In,
ghirami, Cecchi, Demo-, Vico, Secchi,
Bessel, oilers, Leverrier, Maedler
Lamont, Faye, Kreil, Heis, Braun, R.
Wolf, Gautier-all believers in God;
In Physics and Chemistry: Huy-
ghens, Blot, Euler, Rumford, Galvani,
Volta, Davy, Ampere, Cauchy, Lie.
big, Faraday, Joule, Him, Robert
Mayer, William Thomson Q4ord KEEL
VIM, Clausius, Maxwell, Wuellner
Perntner, Roentgen-all believers in
God;
In MineraIogy: Hauy, Won Fuchs
Beudant, Hausmann-all believers il
God;
In Botany and Zoology: Won Baer
Agassiz, van Benneden, Altum, David
Heude, Latreille, Lacordaire, Forester
Won Martius, Kielmayer, Won Schrank
Leunis, Castracane, Wiegand-all be
lievers in God;
In Geology and PaIeontoIogy: Guy
Ter, de Luc, Lyell, Quatrefages, J
Barrand, de Series, de Beaumont
Daubree, de Lapparent, dOmalius
Dumont, Buckland, Hitchcock, Mac
Culloch, Conybeare, Sedwick, Dana
Bischof, Quenstedt, Pfaff, Fraas Os
wald Heer, Studer, Loosen, Waagen
Schafhaeutle, Mivart-all believers il
God;
In PhysioIogy: Johannes Muller
. Theodore SchWanR,. SAILING, .MagneF
!. Volkmann, Won Vierort, Claude Der
nard, Florens, Pasteur, Carney, Pan
tel, Laennec, Hyrtl, Ranke, Ganglbaul
all believers in God. Cor othef
see Kneller-Kettle, Christianity AM
Modern Science.1
% The unbelieving scientists thinl
they have explained lightning whel
they prove it to be form of cleo
tricity: they think to have fathome,
the motions of the heavenly bodies
knowing Kepler's Laws; they thin
they understand the whole world
they prove the existence of the chemi
cal and physical forces and the law
of their development. But when W
ask for the Cause of these causes
whence is matter? whence is force
whence is life? whence the laws O
nature and their wonderful system
atical arrangement? Then thes
gentlemen stand without an ansWe
before the whole, great unsolve
riddle of nature, for which there
no other reasonable solution but Goo
Only scientific mountebanks, ate
the style of Haeckel, who juggle wit
big phrases, who prove" things wit
imaginary and falsified pictures an
tables, want us to get over the dificu
ties of this riddle" by deception
The most thoughtful and cautious III
believing scientists declare at leas
openly with the famous Berlin pro
lessor Du s-Reymond: "Ignoratnu
ct ignorabimus," we do not know an
shall never know, that is, withou
admitting a creation by God there i
no reasonable explanation now nor il
the future of this most importan
riddle of the world, and since we don
want to admit this creation, W
refuse to give explanation.