The results of such inquiries, with the proviso that they are always subject to revision in the light of better evidence and argument, should govern our interpretation of the Bible in those passages in which natural objects and operations are spoken of. Meanwhile we may be assured that these are not going to be points on which our salvation directly depends. You will have noticed that this way out appeals to a picture of God's way of communicating to mankind, within an unfolding process of history. That is, it involves a particular conception of Divine Providence, and thus offers a particular picture of the nature of God. He had, after all, not merely pronounced the central Copernican theses about the relationship between the sun and the earth to be false in fact.
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