ABSTRACT
Fundamental in the nature of much religious belief is that characteristic which may be called the process of theo-symbolism. The arguments of religious belief in respect of science take a variety of forms. Each individual has a configuration of religious beliefs corresponding to or representing a configuration of his personal adjustments. These adjustments can have degrees of completeness or adequacy according as the situation to which adjustment is required is more or less adequately conceived. In a simple society the personal adjustments which an individual may have to make are as great in magnitude as in a highly differentiated society such as our own, but are less in diversity. The attempt to secure personal adjustment rests upon a perception that some degree of adaptation between self and environment is necessary to effective action in view of the ends the individual is pursuing.
