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CAROLINA
Theologian Says Exclusive
Diet Of Science In School
Won’t lake Good Scientists
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
MILWAUKEE,—A theologian
warned here that “if all we feed
the candidates for a science de
gree is science exclusively, we
shall not get good scientists.”
“A scientist is a human being
before he is a scientist, and he
should develop his humanity no
less than his scientific bents,”
declared Father Gustave Weigel,
S. J., of Woodstock (Md.) Col
lege.
Father Weigel stated that
schools of science should make
it a point to provide for their
students courses in language,
history, philosophy and reli
gion, the “capstone of a hu
manistic training.”
He made the suggestion in an
address delivered during a con
ference on “The Education of
the Scientist in a Free Society,”
sponsored by Marguette Uni
versity here. The conference
commemorated the 50th anni
versary of the founding of the
university’s engineering college.
While “science as such does
not render the scientist a foe
of religion,” declared Father
Weigel, “yet it must be recog
nized that the man of science,
pure or applied, is often con
temptuous of religion.”
He said this is because scien
tific training leaves a student
unequipped to handle religious
questions, and accustomed to
“steer away from” religious.
“The result can easily be a cold
ness to the religious or a super
ficiality in his practice of reli
gion,” he said. .
Schools of science should not
“champion r e 1 i g i o n,” Father
Weigel continued, but they
should aid their students “to
meet the religious issue respon
sibility.”
To do this, he said, technical
schools must include humanistic
studies, including religion, in
their curricula.
Father Weigel conceded that
the crowded schedules of science
students and their indifference
to humanistic studies are an
obstacle to the plan he en
visioned.
A partial solution, he said, lies
in keeping religious instruction
“minimal rather than maximal.”
He pointed out that “the engi
neering school does not turn out
theologians, though it does wish
to turn out cultured scholars.”
Futher, he said, emphasis
should be put on the “humanis
tic relevance” of religion to
scientific questions. “The ration
ale and structure of theology in
a school of divinity is out of
place in the engineering col
lege,” he commented.
Father Weigel suggested that
religion courses in technical
schools place special stress on
“the notion of creativity, where
by the scientist shares in the
action of God the Creator.” This
is the aspect of religion most
likely to appeal to the scientist,
he said, and the one most rele
vant to his work.
The speaker called attention
to the “paradox” that ‘there is
no more religious man in the
world than a convinced
Marxist.”
He continued: “He is fighting
not against religion, but for it,
but the religion he wants is
energetically hostile to all reli
gions but its own. The Marxist
is a man of intense faith, but he
has called this faith science.”
38 Schools
Without
Religion
WARSAW, (NC) — The num
ber of schools in Warsaw which
have no religion classes has risen
to 38 — about 13 per cent of the
total — according to the so-
called Secular Schools Society.
In a communique issued at its
meeting here, the society said
it hopes the figure will double
within a year.
For the whole of Poland, one
per cent of the 25,000 schools
now have no religious instruc
tion, according to the society. It
said that whereas last year there
were only 64 schools, with a to
tal enrollment of 27,000, there
are now 250 with a total enroll
ment of 80,000.
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