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The Fundamentals II. SCRIPTURE AND THE SPECIAL SCIENCES Approaching more nearly the alleged conflict of the Bible or Christianity with the special sciences, a first question of importance is, What is the general relation of the Bible to science? How does it claim to relate itself to the advances of natural knowledge? Here, it is to be feared, mistakes a in r g e o c f o t n e t n ra m ri a e d ty e o of n t b h o e th B s i i b d l e e s- w oith n s t c h i e en si t d ifi e c o r f es s u c l i t e s nc w e h i e n re affi n r o m ne really exists ; on the side of believers in demanding that the B co i v b e le rie b s e , a ta n k d en tr a y s ing a b te y xt f - o b r o c o e k d o m f et t h he od n s e t w o es r t ea s d cie t n h t e ifi se c i d n i t s o them. The truth on this point lies really on the surface. The c B o i v b e le rie c s le o a f rly th d e o n e i s ne n t o e t en p t r h o a fe n s d s t t w o e a n n ti t e i t c h ipa ce te nt t u h r e ies s . cie I n t t s ifi d c es d ig is n is very differentu; namely, to reveal God and His will and His purposes of grace to men, and, as involved in this, His general relation to the creative world, its dependence in all i d t e s n p c a e rt f s or on H H is i wm i , se an a d nd H g is oo o d rd e e n r d ly s. go N ve a r t n u m ra e l n t t h o in f g i s t a in re P t r a o k v e i n as they are given, and spoken of in simple, popular language, a sc s ri w b e es o i u s r t s h e e lve w s or e l v d er m y en da k y n s o p w ea a k nd of li t v h e e i m n, . a T nd he it w is or d l e d sc i r t ib d e e d as it appears, not as, in its recondite researches, science reveals t it u s re i s n , ne o r lde c r on a st n i d tut y i o o u n n t g o er u , s h . av We i a s l e wa ex ys po r s e it c o o r g s ni o z f ed th t e his S , cr a i n p d have not attempted to force its language further. To take o n n ic l a y n o s n y e st e e x m am o p f le a , st J r o o h n n om C y al h vi a n d , w ob h t o ain w e r d ot c e om be m fo o r n e a th cc e ep C t o a p n e c r e , in hi-s commentary on the first chapter of Genesis penned these wise wordsu: "He who would learn astronomy and other recondite arts," he said, "let him go elsewhere. Moses wrote n in ar a y p p o e p r u s l o a n r s style things which, without instruction, all ordi * indued * stand. * He w d i o t e h s c n o o m t m ca o l n l u se s n u s p e a to re h a e b av le en t , o h u e n o d n e l r y
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