The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way.
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