Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-11-16
HOLDS RELIGION
And SCIENCE NOT
INCOMp ATIBL.E


SCHENECTADY. NOV 10 Science
md religion. regarded as Increasingly
lrtagonistic are not necessarily incom.
pat h.c but are different and unrelated
activities Of The human mind. said Or.
Charles r. Stcnmct2. consulting engl.
ncor of the General Electric Company.
nan address prepared Tor delivery to.
day in All souls Church az the annual
Ilymen's sunday q the Schenectady
Chapter ~ the Unitarian Laymen's
League
Sga.kIng II THE Place of Religion in
Modern Scientific Civilization DR.
Steinmciz declared that there could Ice
no scientific foundation u religion hut
The belief must always remain the foun.
datn ~ religion The negative answer
( science. he insisted. IL not conclusive
IN the question of infinity In time and
space. immortality. God. etc. and the
question rs still as open as IL ever was,
Dr Siennetz said In part
Religion may bc defined as dealing
with the relations Of man 20 superior
entities. usually conceived as indivd.
uals. that Is. a personal God or personal
Gods Science deals with the conclusions
derived by the laws II logic from our
sense perceptions
cur civilization IL an engineering
civilization and the prosperous life Of
Ia l,rEc populations witch our earth
now supports has become possible only
bv the work II the engineer. Engineer
ing however. Is the application Of
science 10 the service &c man. and so
today science il the foundation not only
of our prosperity. but ~ our very
'Nistcrcc. and thus necessarily has be.
come the dominating power In our hu.
nan society.
There has grown up an increas NIX
nttgonism between science and religion
making the two incompatible with each
.ther
our knowledge Il the superior enti.
ties. with which historic relig on deals
mas been derived by experience and by
Revelation"
Undoubtedly experience led 20 the
first conception ~ superior beings. ot
Gods, the forces II nature pcrsoni
fled the experience In dreams: the or.
DERBY progress OF nature. which seemed
to imply a manager 81 the universe.
With cur increasing knowledge. this
became less and less satisfactory. For
instance. the terror II the thunderstorm
led primitive men 10 the conception OF
q supreme Being, whose attribute was
he thundcrboli But when Franklin
brought the lightning from the coluds
and showed u To be u mere clectri,
-p1rt when We learned 10 make IN,
lightning harmless by the lightning rcd
and when finally we harnesscd electric
ity to de- our work. naturally our rev
ercncc for the throwcr II the thunder
bolt decayed So the gods If cxperienc,
vanished.
81 nthe real ON scence. all attempts
20 find any evidence of supernatural be-
ings. q metaphysical conceptions. az
God. Immortality. infinity. etc. have
/ failed ana with the rise " science tn
| field ~ such conceptions has steadily
narrowed until II We are honest. w
must confess that In science Their,
exists no God. no Immortality no sou
~ mind as distinct from the body, bu
scientifically God and immortality ar
/ Illogical conceptions That Is. scienc
had inevitably Co become athelstic.
There remained only Revelation a
I the foundation Of the historical concer
I ton q religion. But Is there any differ
ence between the dream Of preh.stor.
man. In which he secs wonderful
things. and the Revelation OF Moham
med or Budda or Moses or other found
ers ~ religions. all cun,radicting eacl
other.
Thus there Is no evidence outside o
science fer God. immortality and simil
ar conceptions. and there is evidenc
against these conceptions in science
has justified its methods and oonclu
sions by the work IL has accomplished
But Il IL very hard for man to ge
along without a belief in these concep
tions. We may get along without a God
hut not without Immortality our self
conccit dislikes 10 place ~ little valu
on ourselves. our knowledge. skill ex
pcricncc. In short our ego. 10 conced
that this IL merely a function q the bic
chemical process OF life. which utterI,
ceases and vanished with the distinis
grafton 81 the protoplasm u our bod,
by death.
The conceptions OF physical scienc
are incompatible with the metaphysics
conceptions % God. immortality. infin
lity. etc. But are the conceptions q
science really final and all embracing
or are they limited also. holding with
In certain range only. and no; beyonI
this7 Science derives It's conclusions b.
the laws Of logic from our sense percep
tons Thus u does not deal with tbs
real world. Of which We know nothlnI
htat With tho uerld "a AZ aufaears Ia an