anged or abandoned if necessary to conform to
the new discovered data. Science welcomes the critical attitude that
leads to the refinement of its theories. There may be today various
theories held by scientists in which they are mistaken, but the question
of the _method_ by which they arrive at conclusions can no longer be
under consideration with regard to its validity.

To the scientific mind, knowledge is something to be arrived at by study
and research. To the religionist, knowledge is something that is
contained in an infallible and supernatural statement or insight.
Religion exalts the transcendental; science manipulates only the
material. To the consistent religionist, his belief, as such, determine
the fact; to the scientist it is the evidence that establishes the fact.
To the religionist truth is something that is unchanging, that is fixed,
final, and heretical to question. Confronted with a constantly changing
universe, he would delude himself that his inner convictions give him a
finality concerning his evolving environment. It is therefore not so
much Science that the religionist is fighting, but the _scientific
method_. This scientific method of approach, he rightly perceives, has
so pervaded our mode of thinking that it is the subtle and most
disintegrating force that is shattering the religious foundations.

Dr. James T. Shotwell, speaking of the scientific method, concludes,
"But whatever strictures philosophy may pass upon the _conclusions_ of
science, as merely relative and provisional, there is no clearer fact in
the history of thought, that its _attitudes_ and _methods_ have been at
opposite poles from those of religion. It does no good to blink the
fact, established as it is by the most positive proofs of history and
psychology. Science has made headway by attempting to eliminate mystery
so far as it can. Religion, on the other hand, has stressed mystery and
accepted it in its own terms. Science is the product of bold adventure,
pushing into the realm of the mysterious to interpret its phenomena in
terms of the investigator; religion enters this same realm to give
itself up to the emotional reactions. Science is the embodiment of the
sense of control, religion yields the control to that power which moves
in the shadow of the woods by night, and the glory of the morning
hills....

"Science does not justify by faith, but by works. It is the living
denial of that age-long acceptance which we accord t