Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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particular proportion of those elements have also
been learnt. But it is in vain that we join together the
two distinct forms of protoplasm, the nucleus and
the cytoplasm, albeit in the correct proportions, for
no protoplasm is thus formed which has the
property of life. While other chemical compounds
can be formed by combining their elements in the
correct proportions, (e.g. one molecule of water is
made up of one atom of oxygen and two atoms of
hydrogen) the life-giving matter which is the main
constituent of a human being’s body can in no way
be brought into existence by human agency. Our
powers of creation extend only to inanimate matter,
never to living entities.
This is the area in which we are the most helpless,
and we have no option but to admit it. The greatest
irony is that although all our physiological studies
are concerned with the living man, the results they
yield bear more relevance to this cadaver. Science
has discovered both the elements which constitute
protoplasm and their correct proportions, yet the
particular order or arrangement which is
responsible for the life-property of protoplasm has
still to be revealed. The moment this arrangement
