The
reluctance of some Christian Science parents to permit their children to take school courses concerned with evolution and related subjects for fear these may foster atheism needs careful review.
In
his dissertation on faith, the writer of Hebrews begins with this perceptive definition: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen".
If
man were evolved, through material forces, from some primitive form of lifeless substance, it would be useless for one to try to heal a physical condition of the body by declaring that man is spiritual.