SCIENCE
(See also Archaeology; Astronomy; Bible Authenticity; Biology; Chemistry; Creation; Evolution; Experiments; Genetics; Geology; Paleontology; Physics; Technology)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
accidental discoveries: g63 12/8 17-19
accomplishments: g66 3/22 21-24; g65 4/8 29
age of universe: g80 2/8 29; g76 9/8 30; ad 1551; is 17; g69 11/8 29
a god: w75 231; w72 584-587; kj 156-158; g70 2/8 29; w66 713; g64 4/22 9; w62 297; g62 9/8 6; g61 11/22 19; g61 12/8 29; w60 121-123; yw 292-295; w53 241; ew 61; g49 8/8 7; g38 2/9 24-25
animal experimentation: g80 6/22 6-7; g67 4/8 31
anthropology:
attack on Margaret Mead’s book Coming of Age in Samoa: g83 6/22 30
archaeology: g83 7/8 3-11; ad 105-114; is 45-61
astrology disproved: g85 2/8 30; g85 9/8 18-19; gh 139; w75 715; g75 8/8 4
atoms: g79 11/22 16-20
subatomic particle (“W-particle”): w83 9/15 30
attempts to—
create life: hp 12; g75 12/8 21; g71 1/8 29
understand rainbow: g75 1/22 14-16
balanced view of: g82 11/8 4-6; w75 101-102
belief in life elsewhere in universe: g79 8/22 16
belief that life on earth may be unique: w79 9/1 15
benefits to man: g70 12/22 3; g65 4/8 13; w64 590; g64 4/8 13-16; g62 10/8 27; g57 7/22 16; g45 9/12 24-26; g43 3/17 23-24; g42 2/4 14; g39 7/26 26-27; g37 7/14 652-653
Bible rejected: w71 324
Bible’s scientific accuracy: ce 199-207; w82 12/15 5; w81 10/1 5-6
big bang theory: ce 126-127; w78 5/15 15
effect on scientists: hp 18; g80 10/22 20; w78 5/15 15
book Betrayers of the Truth: g84 5/22 9
book Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: g84 5/22 7
Bush’s (Vannevar) comment on: g82 11/8 9
changes in viewpoint: ce 199; g75 6/22 19; g74 1/8 12-14; g73 10/22 4-6, 19-21, 30; g70 5/22 14-16; g65 4/8 6-8; g65 11/8 7-8; w64 586; g63 4/22 19-22; g60 6/8 3; g59 4/22 7; w56 549; w54 541; w50 420; ew 17-21
comments on death: w64 325
confirmation of faith in Bible: w85 6/1 4; ce 35-36, 199-207; sm 36-38; g81 9/22 25; w71 292-293; is 23-25, 29-32, 75; g69 9/8 28; w67 71; g67 11/8 31; w63 459-460, 689; g63 4/22 3-18; w61 755
anatomy and physiology: w80 10/1 13; g61 9/8 15
archaeology: ce 207-214; g83 7/8 3-6; w80 10/1 5-9; is 45-61; g67 10/8 3-29; g65 1/22 16; g65 6/22 4; g65 11/8 5-6; g63 4/22 13, 17, 21-22; g61 1/8 29; g61 8/22 29; w59 327; g59 4/22 8; w58 618; w55 134; w54 296; w52 646-652; lg 85; g50 5/22 19; g37 7/14 652
astronomy: ce 200-202; w80 10/1 10-11; g80 10/22 9; g78 6/22 20; w76 71; w75 133; is 11-22; ev 38-39; g63 4/22 14-15, 17; g59 6/22 6; g58 8/8 6; g58 9/22 7; bn 22
biology: hp 13; g80 10/22 9-10
chemistry: w59 360, 509; g59 4/22 6; w55 134
earth’s shape: ce 200-201
earth’s support: ce 199-200
Flood: ce 202-203
geology: ce 35-36; g74 9/22 29; is 25-29; ev 104-108; g65 11/8 7-8; g63 4/22 8-10; g58 8/22 3-4; g57 2/8 25-26; bn 27; g53 6/8 8; lg 85; g52 8/22 5-13; g49 6/22 6; ep 19; g42 9/2 16
medical science: ce 204-207; w75 133-136
medicine and botany: w80 10/1 11-13
meteorology: ce 201-202; qm 173; qm55 173
physics: g60 11/22 21; g59 4/22 7
psychology and psychiatry: ce 206-207; w63 356; bn 42-43; g53 4/22 26; w52 51
dangers created by: g82 11/8 4; g80 11/22 5-14; g77 5/8 15; g76 12/8 5-7, 29; g75 6/8 30; g72 10/22 12; g72 12/22 30; w71 561; g71 2/22 29; g71 10/8 3, 11-12; g70 12/22 3-6; g69 6/8 30; g63 11/8 5; g62 4/8 22; w60 617-618; g60 1/22 15; g60 4/8 5; g60 8/8 29; g60 9/8 29; g60 9/22 22, 29; g59 8/22 4-5; g55 9/8 29-30; g49 8/8 4-7
decline of faith in: g80 7/8 29; g79 7/22 20; g73 3/22 30; g72 5/22 30
discovery of universal background radiation: g79 1/22 29-30
discussion: g82 11/8 3-12; g76 12/8 4-10
dogmatism of scientists: ce 179-180; g74 9/22 18-19, 26
“doomsday clock”: su 183; g84 3/22 29; g84 10/22 3; g81 6/8 23; g79 7/22 20; g75 2/8 3
Eccles’ (Sir John) comment on: w85 3/15 24
effect on faith: g71 9/8 30
efforts to discredit belief in God: w62 425; g59 4/22 6; nh 19; g42 9/30 23
argument that God cannot be directly detected: ce 186-187
efforts to discredit Bible: g63 4/22 3-4, 8, 16; g61 1/22 6-7; g59 4/22 7; w56 549; w51 325; g51 4/22 27; g34 6/6 549
Einstein’s (Albert) comment on: w83 6/1 9
electrons: g79 11/22 17-18
elements foretold before discovery: w77 227-228
Encyclopaedia of Ignorance: g78 3/22 29
entropy: g71 7/8 3-4; ev 23
essay by girl on “Why Be a Scientist?”: g80 1/22 16
evolution theory: g82 1/8 29; g82 11/8 8-9; g81 6/8 16-19; g79 11/8 6; w76 696; g76 12/8 7-9; ml 9-11; g74 9/22 17-26
ape-men: ce 83-98; g81 6/22 13-15
criticized by scientists: ce 15-24, 180-183; w83 3/15 7; g82 1/8 29; w78 2/15 7
discussion: ce 7-11, 14-24, 38-53, 142-143, 160-161, 171, 174-177, 179-187, 248-249; g81 9/22 3-24, 26-27
fossils: ce 19-21, 54-70, 79-80, 82; w83 2/1 8; g83 2/22 17-20; g64 9/22 4; g63 4/22 18; g62 10/22 9-11; g56 11/22 10-11; g54 11/22 20; g52 2/8 15
monkeys at typewriters: g79 10/22 23
Piltdown man: ce 90; w79 1/15 27
revised view of (punctuated equilibrium): ce 21-22, 100; w84 7/15 21; g83 2/22 20; g81 9/22 10-11
science not at issue: ce 9-10
science’s “spiritual black hole”: w82 10/15 18
spontaneous generation: ce 17, 38-47, 50-53
view of pope’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences: g83 3/22 30
why scientists accept: ce 183; g75 3/8 31
exaltation of scientists: g60 6/8 3
facts as, differentiated from theories: g71 4/8 6
failure: g82 11/8 4, 10; g79 7/22 20; w77 426-427, 430; g76 12/8 5-9; w75 99-103; g75 2/8 5; g75 3/8 31; g75 10/8 7; w74 131-133; w74 198; w74 477; g74 9/22 30; w73 483-484; tp73 19-20; g72 11/8 30; w71 470-471; kj 158; g71 2/22 29; g70 12/22 3-6; g69 10/8 7; g69 11/22 7; g68 10/22 30; g50 6/22 3-8
to end disease: w83 5/1 7
faith required to believe: g65 4/8 5-6
false: g61 1/22 6-7
Franklin’s (Benjamin) comment on: g82 11/8 3
fraud in: ce 90; g85 4/8 28; g85 11/22 30; g84 5/22 3-9; g76 12/8 7-9; g63 4/22 30
gene-splicing: g81 8/22 3-11
Hawking, Stephen:
“little black holes” theory: g77 3/22 29
inertia: ev 24
inflationary universe theory: w83 7/15 10
knowledge decline among students: g75 7/22 30
knowledge incomplete: w75 101-102
life span:
prospect for improving: g77 4/22 4-5
the same despite modern science: g78 4/22 26
mankind’s common origin confirmed by: g82 10/8 15
meaning of term: g65 4/8 5; w64 584; ns 8
medical science:
problems confronting: g83 9/22 5-8
meeting of scientists on the 40th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear reaction: g83 4/22 29
“missing day”: g70 11/22 4-5
moon rocks: g69 10/22 29
neutrinos: g79 11/22 19
Newton, Sir Isaac:
view of science and God: w77 229
number of scientists: g62 2/22 29
order of universe: ce 118, 120-125; g85 7/8 10-11; w77 429; g75 6/22 18; g71 8/8 3-7
origin of life: w76 696; w74 720; g74 9/22 20; w73 36; g73 10/22 9-11; g71 9/8 5-7; g68 9/8 12; ev 23, 31; g67 4/22 7-9; g67 12/8 19; g65 4/8 7-8; w64 586-587; g63 4/22 4-7
spontaneous generation impossible: ce 17, 38-47, 50-53
origin of universe: ce 125-127, 202; g81 8/8 29; hp 28; w79 6/15 11; g79 7/22 20; g79 11/8 29; w75 200; is 14-17
particle physics: w80 4/15 29
Periodic Table of the Elements: w77 228-229
pope’s address to 115 scientists: g84 2/22 29-30
predictions of future: w77 434; g71 1/8 7; w70 617; sv 3; is 32; w67 618; rn 4; w66 164-166; g66 8/8 5-7; g66 11/8 5; g61 2/22 5; g51 4/8 3-4; g50 1/22 24; g49 8/8 5-6
progress of: g82 11/8 3-4
publications: g69 12/22 29-30; g65 12/8 30
purpose: g61 3/22 20
quality of life affected by: g85 11/22 4-8; g81 12/8 10; tp73 15-17; g55 6/8 5-8; g50 6/22 3-8
quarks: g79 11/22 20
questions beyond the reach of: w85 3/15 24; g82 11/8 11
radioactive dating: w80 1/15 23
reading matter on:
amount published annually: g84 9/22 31
relativity: g69 12/22 20-23; g68 3/8 17-20
school instruction in: sj 28
school textbooks: ce 179-180; g76 5/22 29
science fiction: w83 4/1 16
scientific militarism: w77 427
scientists donate sperm for artificial insemination: w80 6/1 11
scientists expressing belief in Creator: ce 9, 124-127, 151, 171; w84 7/15 21; g84 3/8 10; g83 6/8 28; g80 6/22 24; w77 228-229; w75 651; g75 4/22 17; g75 8/22 26; w72 388; w71 152; w71 292; g71 8/8 4-5; g70 1/22 30; w69 44, 625, 677-678; g69 10/8 29; w67 37-38, 40, 549-550; g67 1/22 18; g67 6/8 30; w66 457, 648; g66 9/22 7; im 16; g65 7/8 6-7; g63 4/22 7; w62 425-426; g62 10/8 27; w61 390-392, 489-490; w59 509; g59 4/22 6-7; g58 8/8 5-8; w57 317; g56 7/8 16; rm 23
Hoyle, Fred: w81 12/1 15
Kelvin, Lord: g79 1/8 11
Millikan, Robert A.: ce 151
survey regarding: g82 9/8 4
von Braun, Wernher: ce 124; w81 6/15 5; g80 12/8 4
Wickramasinghe, Chandra: w81 12/1 15
scientists on war work: g83 10/8 5
how one scientist justified his work: g82 11/8 5
number: g82 10/22 29; g79 12/8 29
percentage involved: g83 2/22 29; w77 427; g76 4/8 30
their attitude toward: g81 12/22 15
scientists unemployed: g71 1/8 30; g71 2/8 30
scientists warn regarding environment: g84 9/8 31
search for life in outer space: g81 2/22 8-10, 14; g81 12/8 31
theories that science once taught: g82 11/8 8
useful languages for scientists: g75 8/8 30-31
use of doubt: g67 7/8 6-7
view of universe’s composition: w80 4/15 29
warnings of annihilation: g72 9/8 3; g71 7/22 29; g71 8/22 31; g71 10/8 17, 28; g70 2/22 30; g70 4/22 30
witnessing to scientists: w77 646
world’s tiniest refrigerator: g82 5/22 30-31
Quotations
dimensions of human knowledge are dwarfed by the dimensions of human ignorance: g80 8/22 26
final scientific proof for the act of creation: g79 1/22 29-30
history of science is replete with personal prejudices, misleading philosophical themes: g84 5/22 5
instead of nature getting easier to understand, it’s harder to understand: g80 8/22 26
much of the opposition to evolution comes from scientists: w81 4/1 15
need to discredit the belief that science will ultimately deliver the final truth about everything: w85 3/15 24
no sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible (Isaac Newton): ce 204
only universal religion of our time: g76 12/8 5
order of universe:
disturbs cosmologists because such conditions could hardly have arisen at random: w77 429
our notion that we can do just about anything is incorrect: w82 9/15 7
our unconditional faith in science is ended: g80 11/22 15
paleontology looks back upon a colorful history of falsified fossils: g82 11/8 6
probability of life, originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd: w81 12/1 15
science has proved that the Universe exploded into being at a certain moment: g81 2/22 11
science is in the process of continual change: g82 11/8 5
science needs moral direction: g80 1/22 16
science sees itself as religion and presumably as an atheistic religion: w84 7/15 21
scientists eager to avoid idea of a Designer: w77 144
there are some things we cannot do as beautifully as nature or God has done: w82 9/15 7
to deny that there is any validity beyond the findings of science is absurd: g82 11/8 9
unable to explain who we are and why we are and where we are going: w79 12/1 11
view that science has disproved religion is wildly wrong: g82 9/8 3-4
we haven’t even come close to creating life: w82 6/1 15
we scientists are rapidly becoming victims of the prejudiced, closedminded thinking that we have so long abhorred: g82 1/8 29
we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world: g81 2/22 11-12