[116] and induced the unconscious mythological^a thinking, to identify the development of the universe with the comparatively known world-history. Now that of course is again something where one must say: this is a matrix of scientific thought which is based on a tremendous confusion. As long as there was no problem--because science^b didn’t know about the billions of years necessary to produce a stone--at that time this was alright. Mythology and science were not yet separated. In the moment in which science realizes how many thousands, hundred-thousands, and even millions of years are needed to produce the slightest thing that exists on earth today, it was a tremendous mistake of Christianity to resist this enlargement of our knowledge about the universe. But I was almost incredulous, I couldn’t believe it, when I was told that there are large groups still in this country, the so-called "Bible Belt", where Fundamentalism^c still resists the scientific hypothesis about the development of the universe in the name of the register given in the Book of Genesis, about the descendants of Adam up to Abraham and Moses. Now if this is done, then we have a conflict which is NOT a conflict of religion and science, but which is a conflict of people who are not able to see the difference of the dimensions. The last point of resistance is that even if everything is left to development, in the sense of modern science, one thing cannot be left, namely the rise of man, because in man something absolutely new arises, and this absolutely-new demands a new act of creation^d, i.e. an interference of God^e in the world-historical process in order to produce a being which has an immortal soul. Now I told you, long ago, that the fact that man has language^f, indeed distinguishes him from every