The Washington times., 1934-02-16
The Human Side of the News
Into Strange Cnrners-Science and Relininn
Science and Religion
BIZ EdLUin C.. Hill

the Bible, between religion and
the Bible.
Listen to the Able Lemaitre,
priest and physicist, holy man
and one of the foremost Scien-
lists of the world, for this is
what he says:
do you know where the
heart of the misunderstanding
lies? 1t is really a joke on the
scientists. They are a literal
minded lot. Hundreds of pro-
fessional and amateur scientists
actually believe the Bible pre-.
tends to teach science. This
is a good deal like assuming
that there must be religious
dogma in the binomial theorem.
When they find the Bibles
scientific references wrong, as
they often are, they repudiate
the Bible utterly.
The writer's of the Bible
were Illuminated more or less,
some more than others, on the
question of salvation. On
other questions they were as
wise or as ignorant as their
generation. 1t is utterly unim-
portant that errors of history
or scientific fact should be
found in the Bible, especially
if errors relate to events that
were not directly observed by
those who wrote about them.
The idea that because they
were right in their doctrine Of
immortality and salvation they
must also be right on all other
subjects. is simply the fallacy
of people who have an incom-
plete understanding of why
the Bible was given to us at
all"
So much for the great Abbe
Lemaitre. But archaeologists.
those eager gentlemen who dig
history out Of the earth in
which it is buried, are continu.
ally turning up undisputabls
proofs of Old Testament history.
The Tower of Babel has been
found, and even the ruin is so
feet high. The walls of Jericho
are where the Bible says they
are, and even if they did not
fall down at the blast of Joshua's
trumpets, they seemed to have
been leveled by an earthquake
at a moment most providentiai
for the Hebrew children.
Dead Seas Secret
At Samaria they have uncov.
cred the actual palace of King
Ahab, who was married to that
very, very wicked lady, Jezebel,
the one who caused the Prophet
Elijah so much distress and vex-
alton, and in the Museum Of
Harvard University you will find
some Of the very ivory figurineS
which the slim fingers of Queen
Jezebel may have fondled.
But the most striking and dra-
matte of all recent discoveries
was made by an aviator flying
over the Dead Sea. For he re-
ports that he made out, deep
down in that lake Of poisonous
denominations, a submerged city.
Probably the city of Sodom
which we read about in Genesis,
in the nineteenth chapter-the
story of the two angels that
came to Lot and warnet. him
and his wife and daughters out
of the wicked, doomed city"
For we will destroy this
place, because the cry of them
has waxen great before the face
of the Lord, and the Lord hath
sent us to destroy it. Then the
Lord rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah birthstone and
fire from the Lord out Of
heaven. And he overthrew
those cities and all the plain"
Lots wife looked back, one
recalls, as they fled in the fiery
storm, and was turned to q
pillar Of salt. Well. there are
pillars of salt enough on the
plain, and the Dead Sea is ons
great pool Of birthstone. And
now the flying man has viSioned
down through the waters one or
another Of those ruined cities.
Copyright 1894. King Feature"
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