Religion and Science
3. The Mechanical Interpretation of the Universe
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This resistance to analysis is not confined just to
radium and the magnet. In-depth studies have
shown that in the past, the supposed causes of
events were actually superficial aspects of
fundamental events. In actual fact, we do not know
why any event takes place, we do not even know
why we sleep at night.
After prolonged deliberations, it has been
established in the world of science that the law of
causation is not the absolute reality it was
understood to be in the 19th century. (Over the last
fifty years a number of authoritative books have
been published which support this theory). The
traveller in science has returned to his point of
departure: the system of this world is not
functioning because of the chance existence of the
law of cause and effect, but because there is a
conscious mind operating it at will. The reasoning
of science has come full circle, leaving the field to
religion to offer an account of reality.
Let us examine the theory that twenty billion years
ago, the universe with all its suns, stars and planets
as we know them did not exist, and that space was
