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The Misuse of Science

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 3.

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The Misuse of Science

THERE is a tendency in many quarters to misuse the word science, which ought to be avoided. Thus a contemporary says: “The scientists are at it again, trying to indict the Bible,” and a noted preacher only the other day spoke of “our latter day science, which is the nurse of irreligion,” while a contemporary affirms that science “says the heavens declare the glory of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.” All this is not only misleading, it is unjust and untrue. Science proper is the apprehension of knowledge by the senses. Essentially it is not irreligious, and indeed may be said neither to have an irreligious or a religious side; it is the determination of truth; and though scientists may advance hypotheses which are unproven, and as we are assured, wholly false, it will not do to dignify such with the name science. —Christian at Work.