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.cb LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN PHYSICISTS

	There has recently been published a spate
of books which purport to show how to reconcile religion with
science.  They are all worthless, because they achieve a 
superficial consistency by watering down religion and
subordinating  it to the fallacies of the so-called
scientific method.  A true explanation of the place of science
can only come from a writer to whom God has granted an
unshakeable faith in the primacy of religion, and
who can always remember, however involved he may get in
the intricacies of scientific explanation, that science is a
grace granted by God to man, and knows enough to look
for evidence of God in every phenomenon he investigates.

	As a result of the essential Godlessness of present 
day scientists - including most of those who pay lip service
to Christ but neglect to pray for divine guidance in their own
life work - science today is a jungle of confusion, and, unless
repentance is quick, it is headed for total catastrophe when
God finally cracks down.

	The essential unGodliness of most of the so-called
Christian historians and scientists is demonstrated by their
inability to understand why the pagan Greeks never developed
what is called "modern science".

	All sorts of ridiculous answers are given by self-styled
Christians who cannot remember their faith long enough to
realize that science is a gift to man from
God and that God would never have granted the boon of
science to pagans.

	God does not need science.  He is infinite
and has no need of simple laws to co-ordinate facts.  He can
and does keep all the facts that ever were or ever would
be in His  Mind at once.  He has no need of Fermat's last
theorem to tell Him that  %2x%5n%2 + y%5n%2 = z%5n%1 has no
solutions in positive integers for %2n > 2%1.
He can just look and see.  (%2Qui
omnia scit, intellectum non requirit%1 - St. Thomas).  

	Do you suppose the childishly obvious
idea of tossing unequal weights from towers never occurred
to such brilliant men as Plato and Aristotle?  Of course
they tried it, but God did not give them consistent results
because it was not necessary for material phenomena to obey
simple laws comprehensible by man.


	No-one who keeps God constantly on his mind would need
an explanation of this fact, but nowadays it must be given.  The
conntruction of intricate theories to explain the world is necessary
only to man with all his fleshly limitations.
God, because He is omniscient, has
no need to be intellectual.  He has no need for Occam's razor, and
it is no convenience to Him to have objects fall according to a
simple law.  Scientific law is a grace given to Christian men.

	The first bestowal of quantitative physical law was
to Galileo.  After praying in Church, he noticed the chandelier
swinging and speculated that the period of the sway did not depend
on the amplitude of the oscillation.  So pleasing had his prayers been
to God, that this speculation was instantly and retroactively granted.
How foolish to write learned tomes wondering how Galileo was able
to guess that the period was independent of the amplitude, and then
completely neglect to wonder what prayerful thought could have induced
God to grant him this law!

	Galileo was rewarded by having several of his conjectures
made true, but evidently God must have had some patience and
affection still left for the Roman church, since Galileo was
punished for his quarrels with this church by having his theory of
the cohesion of water disallowed.

	The next really virtuous man to be rewarded was the theologian
and saintly man Isaac Newton.  It is again typical of this age that
Newton's scientific speculations are assiduously studied while the
theological achievements that induced God to grant him his scientific
theories are ignored.

	Then God, in his infinite generousity, granted to someone
(maybe Galileo or Newton) that scientific laws can be objectively
discovered by anyone who goes through the correct scientific ritual.
Like all God's gifts, this one can be used or abused, and it was
grievously abused.  Hundreds and then thousands of men went to work
producing scientific theories and the angels were hard put to keep up
with them.

	Finally, a certain sly Jew noticed that the angels had rewarded Maxwell
with a theory that was inconsistent with what had been awarded to Newton.
He further had the temerity to propose the only consistent way out of
the inconsistency.  The angels granted Einstein his theory, because God's Word
is law, but to punish him arranged for the killing of six million of his
coreligionists less than three decades later.

	Since that time, matters have gone from bad to worse, leaving
us with the morass of confusion that is present day physics.  No
sooner is an ugly and ad hoc theory spawned calling for a new
particle to account for the experimental data, that the particle
is discovered.  But, since the theory was put forward without adequate
thought and with no prayer, it turns out to be inconsistent
after all, and science is left with a new particle to explain.

	This cannot go on much longer.  We prophesy that when the
American atom bombers release their bombs over Moscow, physicists
will be thrown into consternation and dismay when the bombs fail
to explode!  God will revoke nuclear physics!

	There is only one way to avoid this catastrophe!  Christian
men of science must take immediate action!  A conference must be
called and committees formed to devise a new consistent theory
of physcis according to aesthetic and above all religious principles.
Its every equation must show the Glory of God.

	In order to show their humility, the proposers must ascribe
appropriate parts of the new science to Galileo, Newton, de Nouy, and
other scientists of the past whose Chr←stian principles are above
all shadow of suspicion or accusation.

	To show our sincerity we must burn all the books giving the
false theories and confusing experiments of the recent era.  We must
not shrink from burning also the impious who refuse to renounce the old
and accept the new.  Only then can we sincerely pray to God that
our theory will be granted so that once more the bombs will be safe
from all danger of not exploding.

	All scientists who profess to be Christians are hereby called
upon to show their faith by joining in this great work for the honor
of science and the Glory of God.

	* "Any success I may have had in Natural Philosophy comes from
constantly reflecting upon the truth that every natural law is God's
Law, and therefore must express his Glory and Divine Purpose." - Newton,
preface to Principia.