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Natural law would be fine if you had four legs instead of two, instinct instead of brains, and the fertility god (Baal) of the Old Testament Canaanites instead of the God of the New Testament we know through Jesus Christ...
...Baal. To the scientific orchestra that had been tuning up in sections for centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony of a Newtonian universe under the common rule of certain natural laws. But the post-Newtonian universe has again become something of a mystery, notes Koestler. He quotes the late Sir James Jeans, who suggested that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
What mankind now needs, Author Koestler strongly implies, is a great sleepwalker who could resolve the tragic and longstanding schism between science and faith. Otherwise, he fears, science will become simply "the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain...
...Canaanites worshiped an earth-god. Baal, and Abraham presumably joined in some of their community rites and festivals. But Abraham heard the voice of his own God in the high places. On the Amorite mountain of Ebal, between the city of Luz (later called Bethel) and the ruins of an older city called Ai, Abraham set up his first altar. "While other men," writes Author Hill, "turned to the moon's light, the shadow of rocks, the sanctity of caves, the bounty of water holes, or to the protection of river and sun, to find their manifestations...
...natural conclusion: Father Huddleston was being recalled because his superiors thought he had gone too far in his opposition to Baal. After the Archbishop of Canterbury visited South Africa last spring and spoke out against too rapid desegregation, Father Huddleston condemned his view as "a false impression . . . that will lull Christians into apathy." Last .week Huddleston's superiors denied that he was being transferred under pressure. Father Huddleston merely said: "I am very sad, but in a religious community, one is under a vow of obedience...