Ultimate Answers in the Physical Sciences?

ERNEST H. LYONS, JR.

[Formerly a college professor, Dr. Lyons is now a consulting electrochemist, author of a textbook on the subject.]

Q. Since I have been studying physics, the laws of physics have come to seem more certain, more tangible, than the laws of spiritual truth in Christian Science I've always believed in.

A. I know what you mean. But consider the fundamental nature of reality. It is essentially intelligible; otherwise we could not hope to approach it through scientific methods. Since it is intelligible, it expresses a basic intelligence which evidently existed prior to human reasoning, independent of it, and extending far beyond its present range.

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