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Oct 1943
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Nature, Volume 152, Issue 3860, pp. 479 (1943).
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IN NATURE of July 17 Prof. Julian Huxley directs attention to the misunderstandings of the scientific point of view involved in two passages from Rev. Hardwick's review of Canon Baker's ``Science, Christianity and Truth''. Surely these misunderstandings are in some measure due to the scientific man's habitual reluctance to state his own credo ? In common with any other philosophical attitude, the scientific one must take its stand on some primary assumptions, whether they be regarded as beliefs or as merely postulates. Science assumes an objective universe external to an observer and that there is some real relationship between the sense reactions of the observer and the universe. These assumptions are implicit in the criterion of ``arriving at truth rather than error'' by the ``correspondence with fact'' to which Prof. Huxley refers. They are implicit, too, in the conception of evolution and all that is based upon it; among other things, a belief in an evolutionary trend towards, betterment of some sort and in man's power of fostering and furthering that trend. Many scientific men hold these ideas and hold them as articles of belief rather than as mere working hypotheses.
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