Modern men of science, if they are not hostile or indifferent to religion, cling to one belief which, they think, can survive amid the wreck of former dogmas - the belief, namely, in Cosmic Purpose. .. Sir J. Arthur Thomson, as we saw, maintained that science is incomplete because it cannot answer the question why? Religion, he thought, can answer it. Why were stars formed? Why did the sun give birth to planets? ... The doctrine has three forms - theistic, pantheistic, and what may be called "emergent.
Source: Religion and Science, 1935, chapt. 8
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