We therefore freely admit the possibility of miracles, not indeed in the sense of the breaking of nature's laws, but as manifestations of the operation of subtle forces which are still unknown to us, as electricity and X rays were to our ancestors.

On the other hand, who amongst our leading religious teachers would still declare it is necessary to salvation to believe that the world was made in six days, or that the description of the plagues in Egypt as given in the Book of Exodus is literally true, or that the sun stood still in the heavens (that is, that the earth stopped its rotation) to let Joshua pursue his enemies, or that if a man accept not the creed of St.Athanasius, "without doubt he shall perish everlastingly"?
Such beliefs may still be repeated in form, but who accepts them in their literal sense and without reservation?
Their hold on people's hearts and minds has gone or is fast going.

The religious world owes a debt of gratitude to the men of science who helped to tear such worn-out creeds and dogmas to tatters and allowed the truth to step forth free.

But the scientific world owes an even heavier debt to the real saints and mystics who, through good report and ill, held to the vital truths of spiritual existence and demonstrated to an incredulous world that the life is more than meat and the unseen greater than the seen.
these scientists and saints were like the mountain peaks which caught the first rays of the rising sun and reflected them to the lower world, but now the sun has risen and its rays are illuminating the world.

In the teachings of Baha'u'llah we have a glorious revelation of truth which satisfies both heart and mind, in which religion and science are at one.
Search after Truth Complete harmony with science is evident in the Baha'i teachings regarding the way in which we must seek the truth.