Maxwell vs Newman: can science and faith share one mind?
MAXWELL vs NEWMAN go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.
We agree, Newman, that studying nature and honoring God are no enemies - I prayed that I might see the mind of the Maker in the order of His works.
Well said, Maxwell - and I would add that faith is not credulity; the mind reasons its way toward assent as surely as it reasons toward a theorem.
Yet here we part: I would not accept a truth about the world unless experiment could test it, for even my equations must bow to measurement.
But the deepest certainties of life - that we are loved, that conscience binds us - come not by measurement but by the converging of many small evidences into living conviction.
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