Orthodoxy Scientifically Explained

[lclay3]

This from Galsworthy's Forysyth Saga:

"Jolly looked at his father.

“Do you believe in God, Dad? I’ve never known.”

At so searching a question from one to whom it was impossible to make a light reply, Jolyon stood for a moment feeling his back tried by the digging.

“What do you mean by God?” he said; “there are two irreconcilable ideas of God. There’s the Unknowable Creative Principle—one believes in That. And there's the Sum of altruism in man—naturally one believes in That.”

“I see. That leaves out Christ, doesn’t it?”

Jolyon stared. Christ, the link between those two ideas! Out of the mouth of babes! Here was orthodoxy scientifically explained at last! The sublime poem of the Christ life was man’s attempt to join those two irreconcilable conceptions of God. And since the Sum of human altruism was as much a part of the Unknowable Creative Principle as anything else in Nature and the Universe, a worse link might have been chosen after
all! Funny how one went through life without seeing it in that sort of way!"

Wow! 'orthodoxy scientifically explained' indeed. Is any of the rest of it necessary?

[Eagleheart]

There are two ways for the "intellectually unstable" to overcome the intimidations of reasonable arguments-either by resorting to the 'designing qualities of God" or embracing the scientific method...In fact Science has become s.th of the sort of "sezam, open up" -so it has lost some of its initial steady foundations /not that some maninspired conflicts do not make life more interesting/...and "orthodoxy scietifically explained" -apart from its figurative merits if taken seriosly- oh,come on it kills the pleasure of the audience...

[cuppajoe_9]

I take issue with the words 'scientifically' and 'explained'. There is nothing resembling science in that passage and it explains nothing.