Date of Award

6-1926

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Theology

Second Advisor

William M Magee

Abstract

Science, in its rapid strides forward, has been disproving old theories, challenging old ideas and branding anyone who clings to dualism and God as a 'back number'. The scientist, working with materials that fall under the perception of the senses and puzzling with problems that may be stated in mathematical equations, has tried to deal with all things under the microscope and with equations. Anything that he found himself unable to perceive and deal with through his powers of sensation ne has declared does not exist. To him everything is hard, material substance; man is no more than a mechanism that is far superior to other machines; he has no soul; the spiritual does not exist. The earth has simply been evolved, in the course of ages from nebular formations in space; life sprung up on the earth in the course of time; man is the result of evolution through countless geological ages; God is a fiction of the mind of man; there is no spiritual world; everything is material substance, no more and no less. So engrossed have some men become in their materialistic sciences that their intellectual vision has become impaired to such an extent that they even question their own existence.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted To Fulfill the Requirements For The Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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