Religion and Science
6. The Man Science Failed To Discover
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6. THE MAN SCIENCE FAILED TO
DISCOVER
Modern scholars have come to the conclusion that
we may have succeeded in making great
discoveries about inanimate matter, but that we
cannot be certain of having been successful in
discovering the facts of man’s nature and existence,
for there exists a strange disparity between the
sciences of inanimate matter and those of life. The
sciences which concern themselves with the
inanimate part of our world differ from the
biological sciences in that the former are subject to
definite laws whereas the latter are, to quote Dr.
Alexis Carrel, inextricably lost ‘in the midst of a
magic forest whose countless trees unceasingly
change their place and shape.’ Unlike material
phenomena, biological phenomena cannot be
defined in terms of algebraic equations. The scien-
ces of the material world are confined to
description, a lower form of science altogether,
because they do not unveil the ultimate nature of
things, but only convey certain qualities such as
weight and spatial dimensions. They do give us the
