Religion and Science
7. The ‘Religion’ of the Modern Age
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always boil at 100°C at standard atmospheric
pressure). But man is a different matter altogether.
Any human being, provided he has the will, can
change himself at any point in time. In the words of
Dr. Carrel:
There is a strange disparity between the
sciences of inert matter and those of life.
Astronomy, mechanics, and physics are based
on concepts, which can be expressed, tersely
and elegantly, in mathematical language.
Such is not the position of biological sciences.
Those who investigate the phenomenon of life
are as if lost in an extricable jungle, in the
midst of a magic forest, whose countless trees
unceasingly change their place and their
shape. They are crushed under a mass of facts,
which they can describe but are incapable of
defining in algebraic equations (p. 15).
Hence the impossibility of constructing a rigidly
scientific matrix which would provide the
groundwork for the elucidation of our purely
human problems. The greatest factor in solving
such problems is the control of the human will.
