RELIGION AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING

v the religion in question. It is true that scholastics invented what they professed to be logical arguments proving the existence of God, and that these arguments, or others of a similar tenor, have been accepted by many eminent philosophers, but the logic to which these traditional arguments appealed is of an antiquated Aristotelian sort which is now rejected by practically all logicians except such as are Catholics. There is one argument that is not purely logical. I mean the argument from design. This argument, however, was destroyed by Darwin; and in any case, could only be made logically acceptable at the cost of abandoning God’s omnipotence. Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.” Russell offers the idea that the death and destruction perpetrated by man are grounds for rejecting an omnipotent and benevolent God. However, this death and destruction is a result of the misuse of the God-given freedom of man, rather than the direct intent of God’s plan. Considering this, the argument from design is logically acceptable. We can now look at Russell’s rejection of the argument keeping Darwin’s theory in mind. Arguing the existence of a designer from design is a logically accepted scientific argument. It is the very argument which science uses to prove anything. The rejection of this argument would only be acceptable if Darwin’s theory was itself scientifically established. But scientific research has proved Darwinism to be mere hypothesis, rather than established scientific fact. Hence, the rejection of that argument on the basis of Darwinism is groundless. Therefore we can say with certainty that the veracity of religious truths can be confirmed by scientific reasoning. Scientific reasoning upholds the veracity of religious truths.