God and the Astronomers: containing the Warburton Lectures 1931–1933

Abstract

THE astronomers are, mainly, Eddington and Jeans. Eminent though these names are, some may demur that they do not stand for any generally accepted doctrine; nor indeed represent the whole body of astronomers dispersed throughout the world; nor have they always agreed with one another in important matters. We read on p. 58 that “the utterances of our leading scientists are enough to drive a poor layman to despair”. One can sympathise; they might indeed. Especially if a writer, however learned and acute, were to try to make a coherent statement of what is now agreed in physics, by the longest of short cuts, namely, without really esteeming what science has to say.

God and the Astronomers: containing the Warburton Lectures 1931–1933.

By the Very Rev. Dean Inge. Pp. xiii + 308. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.