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5 MAY 1863
Independent, The (London), May 5, 2008
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T H Huxley, the biologist, writes in a letter to the novelist Charles Kingsley: "The longer I live and the more I learn, the more hopeless to my mind becomes the contradiction between the theory of the universe as understood and expounded by Jewish and Christian theologians, and the theory of the universe which is every day and every year growing out of the application of scientific methods to its phenomena. Whether astronomy and geology can or cannot be made to agree with the statements as to the matters of fact laid down in Genesis - whether the Gospels are historically true or not - are matters of comparatively small moment in the face of the impassable gulf between the anthropomorphism (however refined) of theology and the passionless impersonality of the unknown and unknowable which science shows everywhere underlying the thin veil of phenomena. Here seems to me to be the great gulf fixed between science and theology - beside which all Colenso controversies, reconcilements of Scripture la Pye-Smith etc, cut a very small figure. You must have thought over all this long ago; but steeped as I am in scientific thought, the contrast has perhaps a greater vividness to me. I go into society, and except among two or three of my scientific colleagues, I find myself alone on these subjects, and hopelessly at variance with my fellow men... I don't like this state of things for myself - least of all do I see how it will work out for my children. But as my mind is constituted, there is no way out of it, and I can only envy you if you can see things differently."
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C S Lewis, the writer and scholar, writes: "We talked over old times: then of Barfield's [philosopher Owen Barfield] fortnight in Italy. He told of how in a restaurant he had a call of nature and after peevishly hunting his phrase book found that the Italian (literally) was 'Where can she make a little water, please?' In answer to this the garon replied, 'Wherever she likes'."
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