The achievements and limitations
of sense knowledge

Few of us have realized that the great body of knowledge that has been accumulated through the ages has come to us through the Five Senses. The human body has really been the laboratory for the testing and investigation of all human activities.

Every step in the fields of Chemistry, Mechanics, Metallurgy, Surgery, Mental Sciences, and the Arts, has come from this one common source. The Five Senses, the humbled, abused Senses, are the five servants that have been conveying knowledge of every sort and kind to the brain for it to classify, number, and file away for future rise.

It is said that Mr. Edison experimented more than three thousand times with the incandescent lamp before he arrived. Each mechanical invention, the Radio, the Adding Machine, the Typewriter, has gone through a series of experimentations and developments since its first conception.

This will cause you to see the painstaking, patient research work that men have done in order to give us what we have today in the Mechanical, Scientific, and Chemical world. We would like to pay our tribute to this patient, hard working body of men in the field of scientific research, who have given us the benefits of all their labor in their respective fields.

The Five Senses - Sight, Feeling, Hearing, Tasting, and Smelling - are the parents of all this knowledge. They are not always reliable. The Senses may become impaired by accident, carelessness, overwork, or dissipation, so that they are not to be depended upon. They are not absolutely true.

Yet what ministers they have been. We would not, for one moment, criticize them. We know where their frontiers are located. They cannot know the beginning of things. They can only speculate when they arrive at the last frontier of experimentation.

They know nothing of:

Standing on the edge of this last frontier of their limitations, the mind is unsatisfied.

It craves knowledge, and so, unconsciously, it becomes speculative. It begins to evolve theories.

Reason has no data, no absolute facts on which it can build. It can only dream now and theorize.

Dr. Darwin stood out on the last frontier of human experimentation. He had reached the very limit. The Darwinian theory of Evolution was born out of his lack of knowledge of the Reason for Creation, the Origin of Matter, of Light, of Motion, of Gravitation.

He was unwilling to accept the Revelation Knowledge that, at this point of his extremity, would have helped him bridge the chasm and put his feet upon solid ground.

His Sense Knowledge could not find God, so he could not believe in God. Sense Knowledge can see the handiwork of God, can see the design in Creation, but it cannot find the Designer; it is often unwilling to admit that there is a Designer, because it cannot find Him.

There seems to be a little inconsistency in the man who refuses to admit anything beyond the range of Sense Knowledge.

The telescope of Sense Knowledge marks his horizon. There Darwin began to guess and theorize, and he gave to us the great master guess: Evolution.

The Revelation of God was the missing link that he needed. Not believing in God, he had to find the solution of a universe. Revelation would have supplemented his limited knowledge and he would have stood shoulder to shoulder with Lord Kelvin and the other great scientists of his day who believed in God.

But he repudiated Revelation, forgetting that he had reached the unknowable in Creation in a hundred places.