GREAT IS SCIENCE! by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

GREAT IS SCIENCE!

By Editor

THE Chicago Alliance, which professes to be a religious journal, lauds its views of science and condemns the Genesis of Moses. Thus it speaks:—

"In the account of creation in Genesis, plants and fruit trees are represented as flourishing and bearing before that sun was created without whose life-giving beams, we believe, nothing ever grew on earth."

While it tries hard to give the lie to the Bible, it is only guilty of a singular perversion. We imagine that plants could thrive very well without the sun if they had sufficient light. And this was precisely the case at creation, according to Genesis. Light was created on the first day, and gathered to its place, as indicated by the succession of day and night from that time. On the fourth day the sun was made the "light-bearer" to our system, for that is the meaning of the original. The next step will be for scientists to show that the Almighty could not hold light in existence without the aid of its present vehicle, or light-bearer. But they could readily demonstrate that! and a score of "religious" editors would clap their hands over the wonderful new light of science, to them ever "above the brightness of the sun,"—far above that of the Bible.