p. 10 | SCIENCE AND MIRACLES by John William Dawson

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 19.

SCIENCE AND MIRACLES.

By John William Dawson

[Sir J. William Dawson, in Contemporary Review.]

THE time is past when any rational objection can be made on the part of science to the so-called miracles of the Bible. Christianity founds itself, its Founder Himself being witness, on the early chapters of Genesis, as history and prophecy, and the treatment which these ancient and inspired records have met with in modern times at the hands of destructive criticism is doing its worst in aid of the antichristian tendencies of our time. To remove the doubts that have been cast on these old records is therefore a clear gain to the highest interests of humanity, and if theology and philology are unable to secure this benefit, natural science may well step forward to lend its aid. Another connection with present interests depends on the fact that, while superstitions akin to that which deified the mother of the promised Seed, and introduced the world-wide cults of Astarte and Aphrodite, still reign over great masses of men, absolute materialism and desperate struggle for existence among men and nations are growing and extending themselves as never before since the antediluvian times, and are provoking a like signal and direful vengeance. In the midst of all this, Christians look forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ to destroy the powers of evil, and to inaugurate a better time; and it was He who said, “As it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.” Let us remember the old story of the Flood of Noah, lest that day come on us unawares.