There Can Be No Truce Between Science

Religion Is Still Parasitic In The Interstices Of Our Knowledge Which Have Not Yet Been Filled. Like Bed-bugs In The Cracks Of Walls And Furniture, Miracles Lurk In The Lacunae Of Science. The Scientist Plasters Up These Cracks In Our Knowledge; The More Militant Rationalist Swats The Bugs In The Open. Both Have Their Proper Sphere And They Should Realize That They Are Allies.

Every Christian Church Has Tried To Impose A Code Of Morals Of Some Kind For Which It Has Claimed Divine Sanction. As These Codes Have Always Been Opposed To Those Of The Gospels A Loophole Has Been Left For Moral Progress Such As Hardly Exists In Other Religions.

The Creator Would Appear As Endowed With A Passion For Stars, On The One Hand, And For Beetles On The Other, For The Simple Reason That There Are Nearly 300,000 Species Of Beetle Known, And Perhaps More, As Compared With Somewhat Less Than 9,000 Species Of Birds And A Little Over 10,000 Species Of Mammals.

Capitalism, Though It May Not Always Give The Scientific Worker A Living Wage, Will Always Protect Him, As Being One Of The Geese Which Produce Golden Eggs For Its Table.

The Advance Of Scientific Knowledge Does Not Seem To Make Either Our Universe Or Our Inner Life In It Any Less Mysterious.