LECTURE LIIL 



EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE. 



Prof. Wilbur W. Thoburn. 



Reasons for this discussion. The unique place of 

 the Bible in literature and life. 



The question not whether the Bible is inspired, but 

 whether it grew or was manufactured. 



I. The Bible on its merits. 



More powerful in competion than in isolation. The 

 ghost element in religion and in the Bible. Wrongly 

 used as a substitute for thought. Parasitism, senti- 

 mentalism ; impulse and action. 



More valuable as a teacher than as an authority. 

 Skepticism not so dangerous as sham as making 

 believe to believe. 



The apparent conflict between the Bible and Evolu- 

 tion a conflict of interpretations. 



The Bible and Nature equally a revelation of God. 



II. Revelation. The unveiling of the divine in 

 human consciousness. Misconceptions concerning 

 revelation. Progressive and incomplete. Relation to 

 knowledge. Infallibility and inerrancy. 



III. Evolution of the Bible. Tradition, legend, his- 

 tory. Its symbolism the stumbling block of theology 

 and the foundation of religion. 



Not facts but truths. Not a scientific treatise. 



