Article February 8, 1964 Issue

A College Student Writes

Physics and Job

PAUL A. ROBINSON, JR.

Today the challenge of materiality meets one on every side. Matter is presented as good and useful, the natural sciences have made contributions to the betterment of mankind, and, mortal thought would reason, matter has accomplished strange and wonderful things. These natural sciences seem to bring with them a great wealth and satisfaction.

On the other hand, religion may be satisfying; but often it denies the findings of the natural sciences, and the reasoning of common religious thought may appear shallow.

The Biblical Job was religious, thoughtful, and kind, but when, suddenly, all his affluence was taken from him for no reason that he could see, the theories of religious belief of his day, the very arguments he himself had used to help others, no longer satisfied his hunger for truth. In much the same way people today are no longer satisfied with the standard explanations of either physics or religion. A new approach is needed.

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