Brian’s Reflection: Tuesday, November 6, 2007


Evolution seems to close the heart to some
of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens
the mind to the wildest guesses advanced
in the name of science.

- William Jennings Bryan, who lost
the Presidential election to McKinley
on this day, 1900


Well, I don’t know who Mr. Bryan talked to ….. but he didn’t talk to me!! Why, I even projected myself back in time and stood outside the polling booth to give him the opportunity on this night in 1900 - but he must have been preoccupied.

For me, nothing could be more glorious than the elegance of evolution. And if “God” is anything, God is elegant! God is not some crude hucksterish magician - whose cache is illusion and delusion and trickery. “God” is about Reality.

And, since Science is Reality, they are Twins. Born of the same Beauty and Elegance and marriage of Imagination and Intellect.

There is no separation or contradiction between Science and Faith. Science is the biology and the geology and the genetics and the chemistry. Faith (or Religion) is the glorious Art of elegant explanation which honours the science and exalts the Mind - the Mind being the fountain of God’s language.

Bryan, alas, allowed himself to be misled by small-minded people.

Don’t make the same mistake. Your sanity depends on it.

Brian+