Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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huge mass of facts, but at the end of it all, he fails to
arrive at any firm conclusions about the reality of
man. He has become lost in a world, which, in spite
of being visible, has remained impenetrable.
According to Dr. C.E.M. load, matter is something
unreal, which cannot be grasped. It is a part of the
four dimensional space-time continuum, a network
of electric waves, or a ‘wave of probability which
perished on being looked at; and it has even been
considered an extension of the observer’s
consciousness instead of something solid and
tangible.
This pathetic end to the quest for the secret of life in
the material sciences shows that the secret of life is
not discoverable by man. Now just as a sick man
cannot treat his disease himself and is forced to
consult a doctor, so a man who is in need of
spiritual sustenance cannot provide this for himself
without turning to God. The fact that he cannot
discover the secret either of life or of his own nature
is a sure indicator that he is in need of the God who
created him in the form in which he exists. Just as
God has created man in such a way that he needs
oxygen and then has given him oxygen in