Science and Religion: Nature of the conflict (VIIII)

Conclusions
Working scientists have tended to be skeptical of religion because they have examined only the older religions where, as I have suggested, facts are few and theory is perverted by years of unscientific thinking. Few such scientists have undertaken an objective study of the Bahá’í Faith. They cannot, therefore, presume that they would not validate the finding of Bahá’ís until they have examined this most recent evidence for the phenomenon of revelation. A modern scientist would ridicule someone who judged modern science by studying the science of 500 or 2000 years ago. Yet these same scientists judge all religions without examining the modern form of religion which is the counterpart of modern science.

The truth is that scientists are human and that human beings, even scientists, can suffer from subtle but disastrous prejudices. When great scientists such as Albert Einstein and Julian Huxley have undertaken to write about scientific religion, they have been scorned by the scientific community. Most biologists began to regard Huxley as a senile old man when he undertook to write in this vein. Yet Huxley’s thoughts on the subject are not only profound but they also constitute the true culmination of his scientific career. We, as individuals, can do nothing more than to apply the scientific method in our own life and to maintain a scientific faith. We must not allow false conceptions about science to mar the beauty of scientific method any more than we let false conceptions of religion mar the beauty of religion.

(All above are excerpts from an article “The Science of Religion” by Dr. William Hatcher which I liked very much so to share it here with you.)

“Science and Religion:Nature of the Conflict(VIII)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the Conflict(VII)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the Conflict(VI)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the Conflict(V)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the conflict(IV)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the conflict(III)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the conflict(II)”
“Science and Religion:Nature of the conflict(I)”

Ref.: The William Hatcher Library