Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-07-07
THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE.
'hc Hioi"gist Finds That Life Must Pro-
cced From Divine Cause.

me bioioSist fInus That Life Must Pro-
cced From Divine Cause.
The biologist may trace living bodies
back TO one single cell having both
ilcSr prOperticS-of receiving impress
sons from without and of generating
:orcc from within: but having done
this. he has reached fine limit of his
power. and, so far as his experiments
nave extended he has not found that
This living object originates spontan-
rOuSly or comes out of what is called
dead matter" His experiments have
never found any origin of life which
:" his perception has not proceeded
from pre-cXiStent life. and biology. in
order to complete itself. stands in
need of the scriptural declaration that
thr voice and touch and breath of the
living God produces life. and that he
maintains life. In respect to the ac-
count of the creation of man in Cen
isis. if one looks upon that record as
being like Il pIinting-a picture. por-
iraying the process of crpation-then
there certainly is conflict between that
which science teaches and that which
is set forth in the Scripture But if
that account in Genesis is what all
language, to greater or less degree
must he. Symbalic setting forth of
truth. il setting forth of truth in Il
form adapted to the mind which is to
receive the truth. then there is no
conflict between that which science
has discovered and that which Scrip
lurr teaches. In an old Bible in one
81 the State departments at Washing
ton city. | saw picture of the crca>
ton of Eve representing Adam lyin.
uMl the ground. and the Almighty
manufacturing the person of Eve OUT
ol the rib. and the creation had pro,
crossed about half way.
Now with that conception of the
account given in Genesis. of course
there is conflict with science God is
continually creating trees. but no tree
is to-day created save from some
primal germ by process of develop
ment God is continually producing
living bodies but no body. from that
of the ant to the elephant. is produced
save by some process of development
from an original germ. God is Il
spirit. and spirit never works me-
;hanically. but always vitality, from
within outward, and we have there
lore every reason to believe that the
method of the Spirit and the method
God uses now must be analogous to
that which he used in the beginning.
Science. if we adopt the evolutionary
hypothesis which will serve as an it,
llStritlOn. at any rate, teaches that if
we go back far enough we find one
original gen m which. in process of
development. is divided and becomes
separated into others and into ma lie
and female; that man comes by this
process. Now, as a matter OF ract III
tt,.. Loo
mere is no separate sex. Multiplied
ton is by division. by separation. ana
after separation has progressed to a
certain extent then sex takes place,
"ld the two sexes. male and female,
institute the unit. Therefore. that
Which science teaches would he that
originally there is Il germ: originally,
multiplication is by division: there
c'mrS to be in this process sexual re-
lation and Scpara ton. and the two
>'N"S constitute the unit.
Now. what do we find. as a matter
Of fact. in the Bible? We find the
statement that man is made of dust;
that there is brcalhed into man a
>pirt-that is. he is Il thinking. intel
E"rnt creature; that originally he is
one: that ultimately the one becomes
two. and that the two sexes male and
female, constitute the true unit. There
can he no conflict. therefore. between
tn" facts of Scripture and the facts of
biological science. Biological science
to-day must say that men exist as
male ana female: that the male and
female together constitute the unit,
and make possible the perpetual ton
of the race: the man is Il spirit. intel
Egent and self-acting. and that man
is dust, and the facts which Scrip
turr tcacn us, if we sci aside the form
III which they are presented. are
SIMPLY these same facts. that God
m1de man of dust; made him Il spirit;
made him who was originally one as
an essence. to be two. male and fe-
male. and that these constitute the
INIT SO that there is harmony in the
facts of biological science. and i'm the
facts of creation as stated i'm the
Scriptures DR.. w. w. McLanc
II Christian Thought