86 TEACHING SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

eons of time according to the workings of natural law, the fact
is of great biological interest, along with the development, or
evolution, of all other living forms. If one wishes to assume the
explanation-unproved, possibly unprovable, by science-that
natural law is the Creator's plan, then God made man's body
in His own way. After all, science insists that we study how
this thing was done, whereas Genesis insists that we remember
the Creator! The science teacher can follow both guides!
 Man's true nobility is spiritual-his "likeness to God." Do not
forget that. Impress it upon your questioner. It is really absurd
for either a man, or a monkey, to worry about his body's an-
cestry. Man seems to have a bit more intellectual curiosity, and
therefore we have scientists. Science does not deny God, but it
attempts to explain His handiwork. If an individual scientist
denies God, or an individual theologian denies science, then
neither uses his gift of high understanding. True scholars in
both theology and science have no turmoil within their thinking.
 Answer the earnest inquirer, then, with a discussion as to the
absolute need of nature for a Creator, and the mind with which
man seeks to understand the works of that Creator. Set at rest
any idea that God is displeased if men study His work. "Get
wisdom," said the inspired Solomon (Proverbs 4:7)," and with
all thy getting, get understanding." The wisdom comes by earn-
est study with a sincere purpose. The understanding is a gift of
God, a part of His understanding, a tiny bit of His nature which
he shares with men.

 SECTION 13. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE
 Science can bring both good and evil to society. This has
 been true during all the centuries through which our civiliza-
 tion has been developing. Advances such as the release from
 drudgery due to major and minor inventions for farm and fac-
 tory and setbacks due to war and civil conflicts have see-sawed
 in endless sequence. Science has contributed to both effects.
 Today the implications of the splitting atom-for useful power
 or for devastation-have mankind awed and afraid. Will civil-
 ization be served, or sunk, by the chain reactions of uranium
 and other elements?