r hand, who amongst our
leading religious teachers would still declare it is necessary to
salvation to believe that the world was made in six days, or that the
description of the plagues in Egypt as given in the Book of Exodus is
literally true, or that the sun stood still in the heavens (that is, that
the earth stopped its rotation) to let Joshua pursue his enemies, or that
if a man accept not the creed of St. Athanasius, "without doubt he shall
perish everlastingly"? Such beliefs may still be repeated in form, but who
accepts them in their literal sense and without reservation? Their hold on
people's hearts and minds has gone or is fast going. The religious world
owes a debt of gratitude to the men of science who helped to tear such
worn-out creeds and dogmas to tatters and allowed the truth to step forth
free. But the scientific world owes an even heavier debt to the real
saints and mystics who, through good report and ill, held to the vital
truths of spiritual existence and demonstrated to an incredulous world
that the life is more than meat and the unseen greater than the seen.
these scientists and saints were like the mountain peaks which caught the
first rays of the rising sun and reflected them to the lower world, but
now the sun has risen and its rays are illuminating the world. In the
teachings of Baha'u'llah we have a glorious revelation of truth which
satisfies both heart and mind, in which religion and science are at one.
Search after Truth

Complete harmony with science is evident in the Baha'i teachings regarding
the way in which we must seek the truth. Man must cut himself free from
all prejudice so that he may search after truth unhindered.

'Abdu'l-Baha says:--

In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own
small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our
chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of
life. The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody
else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards
unity, and unity is essential if we would reach Truth, for Truth
is one....

No one truth can contradict another truth. Light is good in
whatsoever lamp it is burning! A rose is beautiful in whatsoever
garden it may bloom! A star has the same radiance if it shines
from the East or from the West! Be free from prejudice; so will
you love the Sun of Truth from whatever poi