The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-06-11
Science aud the Bible.

Much ado has been made by skeptics,
both iu this country and in Europe, tha,
the Bible does not furuish us with sys-
tematic disquisition on Science and As
tronomy, one that should anticipate or
confirm the discoveries that have been
made in tina, direction in modern times.
In answer to these objections it should
be sufficient to consider that it can never
have been part of Gods design to close
up by anticipation any one legitimate
avenue where human thought and inves-
tigation could attain to truth, and hence
the things that wisdom moy know are,
probably, (snd very properly, we should
say. left, for the most part, to be aseer-
tained iu that way. But as many wise
men see perfect agreement between the
Bible and science SO far as the two are
supposed to come in contact, We are glad
to Law their ideas on this subject before
our readers. The celebrated DR.. Cum
mings, in an address before the London
Bible Society, says:
"In speaking of this book, there is
one question, which, though it does not
occupy so large space as formerly, nev-
ertheless excites = great and growing IN
teress, and it is this: Is it true that sci
encc in its freest development, in the
least degree contradicts any written word
Of Gods Once it was said that it did,
but what are the last results 7 That the
progressive science of the nineteenth
century and the statements of that bless.
ed book show that true science and true
religion have common origin-the bo-
som of God. Now, mark, your Bible
vas not written to teach science, but it
is The only book that will stand the test
CT science. The Veda, the Shaster, and
the Koran, cannot stand the test, but the
Bible can and even when it seems to US
beset with difficulty aud mystery, those
passages by modern investigation shine
With brilliant light. Let me mention
to you one or two proofs OF this. And
first of all the Bible never hints system
Of science. II it had been written by
mere human writer's, they might have in
dicated here and there something like a
system of science. 1t speaks of flowers
and trees, from the hyssop on the wall to
the cedars OF Lebanon, but there is not
hint of a system of botany. 1t speaks OF
stars, and sun, and moon, but not hint
Of system Of astronomy. So that no in
yestigator or professor Of science can as
sert that he is in the least degree assist
ed or impeded in his system Of science
| by the Bible; so that it seems to me, the
silence OF the Bible is as impressive as
its eloqucnce, jnst as on the dial the
shadow and the sunshine are alike in
structiye as to the hour of the day.
Then. take the word Ornament, to be
found in Genesis. In the Greek it IL
translated BY word signifying concave
with 4 vast solid mass The Greek and
modern translators have conveyed this
term according to their knowledge, but
when YOU 60 back to the original lie
brew word you find that it means space
without limit Thus you will SEQ that
Moses was far 10 advance of those wht
translated him for the actual truth y
disclosed by modern science. Take an
other instance: Job speaks OF himself a
standing on the circle Of the earth anc
Isaiah speaks of the circle OF the sea
Take one thought more We read NV ~
can sway the influence Of the Pleiades !!
MANY have wondered what was the in
fIuence of the Pleiades. Science, how
ever, tells US that the stars, the sun, th'
moon. and the earth aud their satellites
constitute one group which revolye
round . central sun, and that ceatral SUI
il one Of the Pleiades. Here, then, "
see that, while the Bible does not profes
20 teach science, when il does refer
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