FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 15

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## Science.

## Science and God

## DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN.

"It is one of the tragedies of our time, that science and religion have become adversaries", says Dr. Wernher von Braun, who is one of the world's leading space-researchers, head of the George C. Marshall Space-travel Centre in Alabama, one of the brains behind the Gemini Project and the U.S.A.'s project for the first manned moon rocket, to be sent up in 1969.

THE TWO STRONGEST FORCES which go to create our present-day civilisation are science and religion. Through science Man seeks to learn more of the mysteries of Creation. Through religion he seeks to understand the Creator.

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They are not independent of each other. It is just as difficult for me to understand a scientist who cannot perceive a Higher Reality behind the origin of the Universe, as it is to understand a theologian who denies the advances made by science. Science and religion are far from being independent of each other, neither are they opposing forces; on the contrary they are as brothers. Both are striving for a better world. While science seeks to uncover the forces of Nature around us, religion is trying to discover the forces in Man himself.

As we gradually gain a greater knowledge of nature so we become more impressed and humbled by its orderliness and never-lailing perfection. Our extensive knowledge of the Universe and its laws has made it possible for us to send people out from their natural surroundings into unknown space and bring them safely back to earth again.

ENDLESSNESS OF THE UNIVERSE

Manned space-flights are pioneer works. But until now they have only begun to open the door out toward the endlossness of the Universe.

That which we can see of the mysteries of the Universe through the crack in that door only confirms our belief in Its Creator. Mankind with its limited understanding cannot comprehend an omnipresent, almighty, all-knowing and eternal God.

Every attempt to create a picture of God and reduce Him so that He can be comprehended offers but further proof of His Greatness. I believe it best if one, through Faith, accepts God as a proof of Goodwill, which throughout history manifests itself more and more as the ability of Mankind to understand, grows.

It gives peace of mind to think of God as the Father of all, and the resultant thought, that all men are brothers, is an ethical guide-line.

Scientists only know that in nature nothing is destroyed without being converted into energy. Not even the tiniest particle can disappear without leaving a trace. Nature knows nothing of annihilation, only change. Would God have had less consideration for His Masterpiece, the Human Soul?

For me immortality means a continuation of our spiritual existence after death.

Mankind has had a belief in a life after death since the dawn of history. This has been as essential part of the primitive cultures' religions and it has been preserved in higher developed religions and philosophies.

The significance of this is of far more importance than the pronouncements of philosophers and theologians about what we can expect when we leave this world. From the dawn of time the conception of immortality has had its influence on untold millions of people.

THE SOUL DIVIDES MANKIND FROM OTHER CREATIONS.

The soul separates Man from the animal. An animal's actions are dictated by its inborn impulses, Le. hunger, fear and self-preservation. These im-

UFO CONTACT WISHES TO OFFER ITS DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY OF A BRAVE SOVIET PIONEER - COSMONAUT VLADIMIR KOMAROV WHO DIED ON A SPACE VENTURE, APRIL 24th 1967.