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observers, who regard Scripture as a 

 Revelation from God to man; containing 

 nothing but infallible truth; and that it 

 is quite impossible for the works of God 

 to contradict each other. What is often 

 called " Scientific Truth" in respect to 

 Geology has often proved erroneous, as 

 we have already seen ; and then it has to 

 be retracted, set aside and forgotten. 

 At best it is a mere series of conjectures, 

 which time has often refuted before, and 

 will doubtless refute again. Geology 

 differs essentially from mathematical 

 science. We can only reason with cer- 

 tainty from cause to effect ; and when 

 men attempt to draw inferences from 

 effect to cause, as in Geology or Creation, 

 men can only conjecture. Hence, when 

 Professor Huxley truly says that "the 

 Methods of all Sciences are 1. Observation 

 f facts ; 2. Comparison and classifica- 

 tion; 3. Deduction; 4. Verification;"* 

 you have seen how completely the 



* Huxley's Lay Sermons, p. 92. 



