Science and Faith

Bless Thou, O Lord my God, the divine lote tree, and its leaves and its boughs, and its branches and its stems, and its offshoots, as long as thy most excellent titles will endure and Thy most august  attributes will last. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life and a ladder for his ascent. It’s acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe with our conscious selves arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God. O Son of the Throne! Thy hearing is my hearing, hear Thou therewith…that in mine inmost soul, I may bear witness unto an exalted station of thee. Baha'u'llah teaches that science and the art of healing must be developed, encouraged, and perfected so that all means of healing can be used for the best advantage. The acquisition of sciences and the perfection of arts are considered acts of worship. This scientific power investigates, and apprehends created objects, and the laws surrounding them… The most noble and praiseworthy accomplishment of man therefore is scientific knowledge nd attainment. Just as the earth attracts everything to the center of gravity, and every object thrown upward into space will come down, so also materal ideas and worldly thoughts attract man to the center of self. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. Come forth from the sheath of self and desire, that thy worth may be made resplendent and manifest unto all the world.