FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 15

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

pulses come from the animal's glands and ions are wholly automatic. The make-up of an animal allows no room for freedom of choice, searching curiosity or doubt or conflict between impulses and ethical standards.

An animal knows nothing of that strange voice called conscience, which tells us what is right and what is wrong. Only Mankind is equipped with the conflicts which arise, because it is created in God's Image. And only Mankind is equipped with a soul which enables it to master the problems caused by these conflicts.

Today, thousands of scientists are at work on the most momentous task Mankind has ever faced; an attempt to understand a physical Universe which is unending in time and space, complicated in its detail and impressive in its orderliness, and to understand its origin and how it functions.

It is no longer a sufficient explanation of the aims of science to say that it seeks to find the physical laws which govern the Universe and increases Mankind's control over it, because science's field of endeavour has increased in size. The basic elements of science are collective experiences, observations and the setting of certain goals at which to aim. From these the scientist tries to make a model of time, proportions and cause. When one gains new knowledge the old model is not rejected, it is just altered where the new knowledge points to an alteration.

By reason of the fact that the scientist is willing to alter his model of the Universe; he shows that he does not demand to know the final truth. His scientific laws are at most only re-writings of the observations he has made.

The laws of science do not control the reality but attempts only to explain it. Therefore the laws can be altered when one attains new knowledge.

## NEW AIMS.

The tasks which science sets itself are never-ending For truth is no static concept. For every new answer arrived at, a dozen new concepts come into view.

Science stands before new frontiers in many fields of endeavour: the nucleus of the atom becomes more and more enigmatic - the origin and composition of the Universe is still shrouded in mystery - the inner functions of living organisms still allow of no explanation. Science's Golden Age lies ahead of us.

The scientist works in an atmosphere where doubt is an accepted fact of life and exaggerated orthodoxy taboo. Thomas Husley says of the scientist: "For him scepticism is a first duty and blind faith an unforgivable sin". A result of scientific progress is that traditions, which are the buttresses of faith, have been swept aside. The sciences and religion have therefore often collided. And yet it is one of the tragedies of our time that science and religion have become adversaries. Because to achieve a solution of the conflict it has been tempting to adopt a policy of peaceful co-existence, to divide our experiences into two different areas, to give ice control over the one and religion control over the other.

Let science explore the physical world, whilst religion takes care of the other, people say. When science has reached its limits, then religion can take over and explain that which allows of no explanation. This is a fateful step to take. To separate the two worlds could only be done if scientists were not Christians and no Christians were scientists. But science and religion do not reign over two separate kingdoms.

## INVISIBLE

It is not possible to build a wall between religion and science. Gradually, as science is enabled to explain some of the mysteries of the Universe it comes into areas which were previously unknown or only accepted on a basis of faith.

Every new experience - physical or spiritual - must fit into a pattern which gives both faith and meaning. It is Mankind that explores the Universe, experiments, and seeks for the truth. It is not just a detail, it takes part itself in the process of creation. Mankind itself is the greatest result of the Creation.

The fact that more and more of the wonders of Creation are being disclosed is of direct concern to Mankind.

Science and religion can be compared with two windows in a house, through which we can observe the world around us or our neighbours. (There are other windows to be found in the house: Art, Literature and History). Whatever we may see through the windows of this imaginary house, it must fit in with the model we have of the Universe and our place in it.

Where it does not fit, we must alter the model alter our aim and try to increase our ability to understand the Creation.

In our modern society it would appear that many people think that the advances made by science have caused such things as religious belief to become out-of-place and old-fashioned. They cannot understand why we should "believe" in something, when science can tell us that we "know" so much. The simple answer to this assertion is that we are aware of more of nature's mysteries today than people were before the advent of scientific research. There is absolutely no reason to believe that God cannot retain His place in our modern times in the same way as before we began to examine His Creation with telescope and ion-accelerators.

Even though science is no religion, it is, by nature of its assumptions, its application and its search for the truth, a religious function. The Creator reveals Himself through His Creations. As Charles A. Coulson says: "Science helps us to create a picture of God". We must remember that science only exists because there are people, and its concepts exist only in people's understanding. Behind these concepts lies reality, which God can reveal to us.