ABSTRACT
In recent times, the bulk of eminent physicists and a number of eminent biologists have made pronouncements stating that recent advances in science have disproved the older materialism, and have tended to re-establish the truths of religion. One of the most remarkable developments in the religious apologetics in recent times is the attempt to rescue free will in man by means of ignorance as to the behaviour of atoms. The older laws of mechanics which governed the movements of bodies large enough to be seen remain true to a very close approximation as regards such bodies, but are found to be not applicable to single atoms, still less to single electrons and protons. Returning now to the atom and its supposed free will, it should be observed that it is not known that the behaviour of the atom is capricious.
