The Deifying of "Science."
By Editor
There is a great deal of it at the present time. Contradictory as are its deductions and its advocates, Babylonic as is its condition in the minds of many, it demolishes the Bible and dethrones its Author. An incidental inference of this kind is furnished in an editorial in the Examiner of October 29. In speaking of the new diphtheria cure, it says:— The conquest of another disease is an event to be hailed with satisfaction by the world. It is another step toward the day when all sickness will be under the control of science.
The next thing claimed for "science" will be the abolition of death. But disease and death will not be abolished till sin is no more, and that will not be till it is destroyed by the brightness of the glory of Christ's presence. There is true science,—knowledge,—and there is also "science falsely so called." The sum of all knowledge is to know God and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent. This is given in God's word and is eternal life, because it is righteousness. All science apart from that, either in possession or exercise, is worthless.