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)