Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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be the final reality, just as believers in God have
diverse concepts of God. Even so, the conclusion
arrived at by academic study that the final
underlying reality of the universe is mind, testifies
by its very nature to the truth of religion and
amounts to a rejection of atheism. ‘The truly
significant change in modern science is not to be
found in its increased powers to aid man’s progress,
but in the change in its metaphysical foundations.’
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The best exposition of this viewpoint is to be found
in
The Mysterious Universe,
by Sir James Jeans. By
pure scientific argument, the writer has come to the
conclusion that in the light of modern physics, ‘The
universe cannot admit of material representation,
and the reason, I think, is that it has become a mere
mental concept.’
He later goes on to say, “if the universe is a
universe of thought, then its creation must have
been an act of thought” (pp. 133-134).
He holds that the modern concept, which interprets
matter in terms of waves of electrons, is quite
unconceivable to human thought, because these
‘waves’ could be only the ‘waves of probabilities’
