Religion and Science
Foreword
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Similarly, the rapid increase in human knowledge
had led to the assumption it would ultimately
embrace all truths. There would then be no need for
divine revelation. But later investigations have
demonstrated how baseless this concept is, for man
simply does not have faculties, which are deve-
loped enough to arrive unaided at absolute truths.
He must, in the last analysis, have recourse to an
Eternal Teacher. In all ways, modern knowledge,
far from weakening the bases of religion, has
fortified them.
Modern investigation has also proved that the urge
to be religious is a natural and insuppressible
emotion in man. Attempts have been made to
formulate a man-made religion, but in a universe
where man is pathetically incapable of arriving at
ultimate truths, this has been a failure. This was
inevitable, for there is no man who is able, without
divine guidance, to develop a religion, which is in
complete correspondence with the truths of the
universe for the benefit of the creatures that inhabit
it.
