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Science And The Bible. *
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE . *
A EELKHON which cannot "bear the test of true science , is certainly not from God , for he never contradicts by his works what his mouth has uttered . The difficulty we apprehend has arisen from the fact
that smatterers in science have jumped too readily to conclusions contradictory to the Scriptures ; or sometimes truly learned men , charmed by an ingenious hypothesis , have been led out of the path of science , and have supported as true that which contradicts the revealed word of God . The error on the other hand has been
m some quarters , to reject 'the aid of science m support of revealed truth , or condemn it as antagonistical , as though God ' s laws for the government of the physical , could he in opposition to those which govern the mental or moral world . As though God could contradict himself , and as though the rock , rightly read , out of which the table of stones were hewn , could reveal laws opposed
to those written thereon , and both God ' s work . They are all God ' s laws and surest work in harmony . Men have and may still read , through ignorance , portions of God ' s revealed word , as well as his writing on the mountains , on the seas or in the depths of the earth , erroneously , but true religion has nothing , we are sure , to fear from true science .
The scientific facts recited in our present extract , are worth knowing of themselves , without immediate regard to their connection with the higher subject . " The heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament showeth his handiwork . " Thus spake the Psalmist in view of the Sevelation which God had made of Himself in his works . With deeper emphasis
may we now utter the same ascription of praise ; for that revelation , as its records have been unfolded in these later days , has opened more and more glorious thoughts of the Almightjr Architect , and appears as unfathomable in its truths , as God himself is infinite . The world in general is satisfied to see this glory as exhibited in form , colour , magnitude , and other outside qualities . The external attributes of existence have indeed been graciously made so transcendant in beauty and full of harmonies , that " he may run that readeth . " But there are also revelations below the surface , open to those who
will earnestly look for them . "For God's hand was never outstretched to create , but beauty and wisdom appeared in every tracing ; and , if seemingly wanting in the outer vestments , they arc still profoundly exhibited through the structure beneath , in the ordering of the parts from which the externals are educed , and in the universal laws there
* A Review of "The Six Days of Creation" of Prof . Tayler Lewis , l > y James D . Dana , LL . D ., iSilliman j . ' rofesaor of Natural Hiatory , Yale College . —Extracted from the Acacia Monthly Masonic Magazine . —Natchez , Miasissipi .
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Science And The Bible. *
SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE . *
A EELKHON which cannot "bear the test of true science , is certainly not from God , for he never contradicts by his works what his mouth has uttered . The difficulty we apprehend has arisen from the fact
that smatterers in science have jumped too readily to conclusions contradictory to the Scriptures ; or sometimes truly learned men , charmed by an ingenious hypothesis , have been led out of the path of science , and have supported as true that which contradicts the revealed word of God . The error on the other hand has been
m some quarters , to reject 'the aid of science m support of revealed truth , or condemn it as antagonistical , as though God ' s laws for the government of the physical , could he in opposition to those which govern the mental or moral world . As though God could contradict himself , and as though the rock , rightly read , out of which the table of stones were hewn , could reveal laws opposed
to those written thereon , and both God ' s work . They are all God ' s laws and surest work in harmony . Men have and may still read , through ignorance , portions of God ' s revealed word , as well as his writing on the mountains , on the seas or in the depths of the earth , erroneously , but true religion has nothing , we are sure , to fear from true science .
The scientific facts recited in our present extract , are worth knowing of themselves , without immediate regard to their connection with the higher subject . " The heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament showeth his handiwork . " Thus spake the Psalmist in view of the Sevelation which God had made of Himself in his works . With deeper emphasis
may we now utter the same ascription of praise ; for that revelation , as its records have been unfolded in these later days , has opened more and more glorious thoughts of the Almightjr Architect , and appears as unfathomable in its truths , as God himself is infinite . The world in general is satisfied to see this glory as exhibited in form , colour , magnitude , and other outside qualities . The external attributes of existence have indeed been graciously made so transcendant in beauty and full of harmonies , that " he may run that readeth . " But there are also revelations below the surface , open to those who
will earnestly look for them . "For God's hand was never outstretched to create , but beauty and wisdom appeared in every tracing ; and , if seemingly wanting in the outer vestments , they arc still profoundly exhibited through the structure beneath , in the ordering of the parts from which the externals are educed , and in the universal laws there
* A Review of "The Six Days of Creation" of Prof . Tayler Lewis , l > y James D . Dana , LL . D ., iSilliman j . ' rofesaor of Natural Hiatory , Yale College . —Extracted from the Acacia Monthly Masonic Magazine . —Natchez , Miasissipi .