Friday, October 7, 2022

John H. Gardner On the Intelligence of Man

  

The Intelligence of Man Godlike

 

That man’s intelligence is competent to comprehend the things of the universe and is hence godlike has been much alluded to in the foregoing. Perhaps there is no other aspect of modern science which exhibits so well the convergence of science with Mormon thought. The Mormon view of the eternity of the individual intelligences and their “coequality” with the intelligence of God is entirely harmonious with the fundamental conversation law of physics. Furthermore, there seems to be no limit to man’s ability to unravel the secrets of the universe. That this should be the case is certainly no coincidence: it can only mean that the intelligence that created the universe was of the same nature as our own. (John H. Gardner, “The Concept of Science,” in Science and Religion: Toward a More Useful Dialogue, ed. Wilford M. Hess and Raymond T. Matheny, 2 vols. [Geneva, Ill.: Paladin House Publishers, 1979], 1:20)

 

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