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Donald S. Robertson, Ph.D. Chairman, Dept, of Science, Biola Bible College
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Christian View of Science
writers [of the Bible] the secrets of modem science.” If this is so, there is expected little or no anticipation of science in the Scriptures. On this basis the author rejects the idea that among other things the Scriptures an ticipated radio, motor cars, airplanes, television, or modem nuclear physics as has been suggested by some writ ers. In the last four chapters an at tempt is made to harmonize various Biblical passages with scientific find ings in the fields of astronomy, geol ogy, biology and anthropology. The subjects that are dealt with are the old familiar ones such as Joshua’s long day, the six days of creation, the flood, origin of life, evolution and origin of man to name a few. His analyses of these problems are thor ough with well-documented evidence. The reader who is not very well informed in the problems that exist between science and the Bible may be surprised to find some interpreta tions long held by the church are no longer tenable in the light of present day science. Such interpreta tions as the gap or reconstruction theory and the theory that the flood was responsible for all the strata and fossils of geology are analyzed and found to lack support by modern science. The author’s case against these and other theories is devastat ing but fortunately he is just as apt in suggesting possible solutions to the problems that these passe' theo ries failed to answer. One may not agree with all of his solutions but they are so well presented that they demand respectful consideration. If the Christian church is going to do an effective work in this age of science it must honestly face the problems considered in this book. With its publication the fundamen tal church has taken a long stride forward toward increasing the effec tiveness of its testimony to a scien tifically minded generation. END.
lljith in the past few months there ■ ■has been published by Wm. B. * Eerdmans. Publishing Co., a book entitled The Christian View of Sci ence and Scripture by Bernard Ramm that reverses the uncritical trend of many of the recent works in this field. This book is of such importance that it cannot afford to be ignored by the fundamental church. It is the best attempt so far published to bring the fundamental church up to date in its interpretation of science and as such should be read by all evan gelicals. The first three chapters are given over to a consideration of why dis harmony now exists between science and Christianity and establishing a Christian philosophy of nature. The author does not agree with those of the orthodox circles that would dis miss science as irrelevant to their faith and thus see no need or pos sibility of reconciliation between the Bible and science. It is the author’s position that . . . “ The tccngency of the Biblical religion to fact must be maintained. One generation of evan gelicalism might survive if we seri ously divorce the religion of the Bible from its necessary relevance to fact, but we feel that the second genera tion would drift away from anything similar to Biblical religion. The is sues at stake then in Bible and sci ence are enormous.” Believing this the author then proceeds to reconcile the two fields of knowledge and in the third chapter suggests a Christian philosophy of nature that will permit harmony with science. As important as the first three chapters are the remainder of the book which will probably attract the most attention because it is here that the author discusses specific scrip tural passages in the light of present day science. Chapter four deals with anticipation of science in Scripture. It is the author’s view “ . . . that the Holy Spirit . . . did not give to the
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