God Arises
The Method of Argument
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less than religion, is ultimately a matter of having
faith in the unseen. Scientific findings, based on
observation, are tenable only so long as they deal
with the initial and external manifestations of
nature, but when it comes to defining ultimate
realities answering the question ‘Why’? and not the
question ‘How?’ science must yield pride of place to
religion, for it fails to answer this momentous
question; it has to fall back upon faith in the unseen,
something for which religion in latter times has
been much criticized.
Sir Arthur Eddington’s view that the table at which
the scientists of today are working is, in fact, a set of
two different tables, is illuminating.
I have drawn up my chairs to my two tables.
Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every
object—one of these tables has been familiar
to me from my earliest years. It is a
commonplace object of that environment
which I call the world. How shall I describe it?
It has extension; it is comparatively
permanent; it is coloured; above all it is
