case if the total book opened the way to a restored communication with someone important to the reader. So it is with Christianity: the ripped pages remaining in the book correspond to the abnormal universe and the abnormal man we now have. The parts of the pages which are discovered correspond to the Scriptures which are God’s propositional communication to mankind, which not only touch “religious” truth but also the cosmos and history, which are open to verification. Neither the abnormal external world