Funk's View--The Great
Panacea for Unbelief--Ingersoll--No Divine Failure.
Some have a belief that on topics that are unrevealed we ought to be
reverently silent. On certain subjects that may be the correct attitude.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." But though there are many
cases in which we cannot attain to certainty, we may perhaps attain to
probability, and a high degree of probability. In many cases that is
sufficient; often it amounts to moral certainty. As Bishop Butler says,
"Probability is the very guide of life."
With the best use that can be made of Scripture and reason, there are
many topics on which we shall not attain to absolute certainty. But if
we attain to probability, we have made a great advance. Moreover, the
probability of this age may be the certainty of the next.
Besides; it would argue a very unworthy belief in the goodness of God,
to refrain from investigating the domain of truth so far as we can, lest
unhappily we should have to discount the forces that make for
righteousness.
Religion and science should be united in this search for truth. And we
are glad to see that some of the foremost exponents of scientific truth
have this idea. As Sir Oliver Lodge says, "It is the duty of Science to
examine even into the domain of religion." In fact, Science is religion
when its discoveries, as in the case of Kepler, are recognized as the
thoughts of God.
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