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Title: God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Price, George McCready, 1870-1963
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: Washington, Review and Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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m slime to solve, Tis quite as easy to suppose from mortalsThat angels may evolve! — Independent, Aug. 9, 1906. of many succeeding centuries. It is true we have long out-grown the crude scientific guesses of those days; and, likethe Ptolemaic astronomy, which said that the earth was thecenter of the universe, and that the sun and stars all circledabout it, we have long since consigned them to the limboof literary curiosities. With them also have gone the nu-merous chemical and geological theories of the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries, equally contrary to the Wordof God. But what assurance have the modern advocates of theEvolution doctrine that their now popular theory will notalso be outgrown and discarded for something more in har-mony with the better-known facts of science, and more inharmony with the Bible? It certainly has no more inherentfinality about it than any of the previous theories alreadymentioned. Evolution is precisely like all other cosmogonies 16 GODS TWO BOOKS
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GALILEO (1564-1642) Eppur si muove! Up to his time the astronomers had been following blindlyfor over a thousand years the false hypothesis of Ptolemy thatthe earth is the center of the universe, and that the sun and allthe stars revolve about it. Accumulated discoveries had madethis theory so top-heavy with absurdities that it was a great relief GODS TWO BOOKS 17 in being an attempt to solve the riddle of the universe byunassisted human reason. What probability is there thatit has succeeded at this any better than its predecessors?In one form or another it may be now almost universallyaccepted among scientific men, but were not the astronom-ical theory of Ptolemy and the philosophy of Aristotle ab-solutely universal for over a thousand years? We must not forget the long centuries during which thefollies of alchemy were regarded as science, and the par-amount influence of the planets over human destiny wasexalted into a kind of religion. Already the discoveries ofrecent years have mad

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