CHAPTER XXI.
THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE.
“There is a beautiful harmony between the principles of science and the teachings of the Bible.”—Dr. Cheever.
Bibliolaters, unacquainted with the principles of science, and scientists unacquainted with the teachings of the Bible, may accept this statement; those conversant with both cannot. In the Bible a thousand scientific errors may be found. The limits of this work preclude a presentation of them all. Enough will be given, however, to show that the teachings of the Bible conflict with the teachings of the ten principal sciences—Astronomy, Geology, Geography, Botany, Zoology, Ethnology, Physiology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics.
Astronomy.
“And God said, Let there be light, and there was light” (Gen. i, 3).
“And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day” (5).
“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also ... and the evening and the morning were the fourth day” (16, 19).
The cause is supposed to precede the effect; but here the effect precedes the cause. Light and darkness, morning and evening, day and night exist before the sun.