00100	LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN PHYSICISTS
00200	
00300		There has recently been published a spate
00400	of books which purport to show how to reconcile religion with
00500	science.  They are all worthless, because they achieve a 
00600	superficial consistency by watering down religion an 
00700	subordinating  it to the fallacies of the so-called
00800	scientific method.  A true explanation of the place of science
00900	can only come from a writer to whom God has granted an
01000	unshakeable faith in the primacy of religion, and
01100	who can always remember, however involved he may get in
01200	the intricacies of scientific explanation, that science is a
01300	grace granted by God to man, and knows enough to look
01400	for evidence of God in every phenomenon he investigates.
01500	
01600		As a result of the essential Godlessness of present 
01700	day scientists - including most of those who pay lip service
01800	to Christ but neglect to pray for divine guidance in their own
01900	life work - science today is a jungle of confusion, and, unless
02000	repentance is quick, it is headed for total catastrophe when
02100	God finally cracks down.
02200	
02300		The essential unGodliness of most of the so-called
02400	Christian historians and scientists is demonstrated by their
02500	inability to understand why the pagan Greeks never developed
02600	what is called "modern science".
02700	
02800		All sorts of ridiculous answers are given by self-styled
02900	Christians who cannot remember their faith long enough to
03000	realize that science is a gift to man from
03100	God and that God would never have granted the boon of
03200	science to pagans.    God does not need science.  He is infinite
03300	and has no need of simple laws to co-ordinate facts.  He can
03400	and does keep all the facts that ever were or ever would
03500	be in His  Mind at once.  He has no need of Fermat's last
03600	theorem to tell Him that  x  to the  n  plus  y  to the  n
03700	is never equal to z to the n for positive integers
03800	with n greater than two.  He can just look and see.  (Qui
03900	omnia scit, intellectum non requirit - St. Thomas).  
04000	
04100		Do you suppose the childishly obvious
04200	idea of tossing unequal weights from towers never occurred
04300	to such brilliant men as Plato and Aristotle?  Of course
04400	they tried it, but God did not give them consistent results
04500	because it was not necessary for material phenomena to obey
04600	simple laws comprehensible by man.
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