Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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other educated men.
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Sir James Jeans underscores this when he says, ‘Our
modern minds have, I think, a bias towards
mechanical interpretation.’
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Now, in a world where prejudice holds sway, how
can we hope that a concept will be accepted only
because it has been proved academically? The
often-repeated experiences of history show that
man has all along been governed by his emotions
rather than by his intellect, in spite of the fact that
academically and logically, reason occupies the
higher position. More often than not, reason has
played into the hands of emotion. It has seldom
happened that it has gained a positive control over
the emotions. Indeed, the intellect has always
coined arguments to support the emotional and
thus tried to prove that emotional attitudes were
rational. Man finds it a psychological necessity to
cling to his emotional being, even at the cost of
remaining blind to reality. We must remember,
therefore, that we are not dealing with machines,
which ought to respond to the mere flicking of a
switch. What we have to address ourselves to is
