154 The Fundamentals think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know” (1 Cor. 8:2). Such is the plain declaration of Scripture as to the limitations of all human knowledge ; and he who knows the most is most conscious of these limitations. But if, by the statement that the Bible was not written to teach “science,” it be meant that the Bible is unscientific, that state ment is not true. On the contrary, the Bible is the only book in the world that is truly “scientific;” for it is the only book which gives precise, accurate and absolutely reliable informa tion upon every subject whereof it treats. It is the only book in the world upon every statement of which one may safely put implicit confidence. Countless millions have believed the statements of the Word of God, every one of them to his unspeakable advantage, not one of them to his hurt. We used to hear a great deal, some thirty years ago, about the many “mistakes of Moses,” and the errors which “science,” with her keen eye, had detected in the Scriptures, But we hear very little today from scientists themselves about the “conflicts between science and religion.” These conflicts have, one by one, ceased, as “science” has revised her hasty conclusions and corrected her blunders. The writer has been a diligent student of the physical sciences and of the philosophies based on them, for upwards of twenty-five years, and a practicing lawyer for a still longer period, and having now acquired a fair knowledge of the text of Scripture, he can say that he is aware of no demonstrated fact of science which is in conflict with a single statement of the Bible. Among all the “assured results of science” there exists not, to his knowledge, evidence sufficient in character and amount to convict the Bible of a single error or misstatement. Of course, such evidence could not .exist. The Lord Jesus said of the Word of God, “Thy Word is truth” (John 17:17); and of course, true knowledge of God’s creation, cannot conflict with His Word. .A recent book by Alfred Russel Wallace entitled, “Man’s Place in the Universe” (1904), furnishes a striking illustration,
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