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1965 the Witness, Vol. 50, No. 38. November 25, 1965 "' WITNESS NOVEMBER 25, 1965 10$ publication. and Editorial reuse for Bringing Vietnam into Your Prayers required Articles Permission DFMS. Climbing on Temporary / Band-Wagons Church John Peacock Episcopal the of Ordination: Why Bother? William L. Dols Jr. Archives 2020. We Try Harder Copyright Corwin C. Roach NEWS: — Space Probes May Change Our View of God. The Poor do Some Talking for Themselves. Blake Says Church is on a Spot SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches NEW YORK CITY ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH EDITORIAL BOARD Tenth Street, above Chestnut PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE JOHN MCGIU. KBDMM, Chairman Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9 10, Morn- The Rev. Alfred W. Price, D.D., Rector W. B. SFOFFOHD SB., Managing Editor ing Prayer, Holy Communion and Ser- The Rev. Gustav C. Meckling, B.D. mon. 11; Organ Recital, 3:15 and ser- EDWARD J. 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Story of the Week many galaxies each with a few Scientist Says Space Probes billion suns, he added. The question these discover- publication. May Change Our View of God ies raise, he said, is, "Is God big and •k A Michigan scientist raised ba a human. Others are not enough to look after all that some challenging questions for created equally." junk and me, too? Or am I reuse church people during his ap- He reported that one of every more on my own? for pearance, in Duluth, Minn., for 16 births deviates from the "Also, what kind of guy is the northern lakes faith in life norm and speculated whether God? Did he play the game of required dialogue week. some children "should have the the 'ball of clay and rib bit' or did he say, '1 am going to set . Two questions posed by Le- right not to be conceived." up the rules whereby a proton roy G. Augenstein, a biophysc- "At the moment, the most and an electron form a hydro- Permission ist, were: haphazard thing we do is to gen atom and then everything Should man "play God" and create children," he said. "What else will evolve from that?'" The answer, Augenstein ad- DFMS. learn to manipulate the heredity person would invest $30,000 to / $50,000 in a business without mitted, could make an image of of a child before the child is a less personal and less inti- conceived ? thinking? Yet a child is con- Church mate God than many might Do recent space discoveries ceived in a moment and you wish. require that man change his must invest that much in rais- Yet, he asked, "Why did God view of God? ing him." give me a brain if he is going Episcopal Dr. Augenstein, chairman of Augenstein said one of the to look after me periodically?" the problems in controlling heredity Another question, Augenstein of the department of biophysics at Michigan State University, in- would be to decide, "What's an said, is whether "God is a mas- dicated he feels the ultimate an- ideal man?" ter scientist who set up life of Archives swer to both questions must be The answer to that, he sug- a variety of sorts on many "yes." gested, must lie outside the planets." 2020. Because of the population realm of science. He said he "would like to be explosion, Augenstein said it is The Michigan scientist said around for 10 years after the vital that man faces up to the science still has a long way to Russians receive the first mes- question of who he is and why go before it can manipulate sage from outerspace that ap- Copyright he is here.
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