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NATURAL TEKSUS SUPEENATUEAL 



/^XJR theological professors make a mistake when 

 ^^ they think they have weakened or parried the 

 objections of science to their doctrines by pointing 

 to the fact that science is constantly revising or re- 

 versing its own conclusions ; that what was deemed 

 good science at one time is found to be false science 

 at another. " This modern infallibility which men 

 call science " is a phrase used by a modern doctor of 

 divinity in criticising a recent paper of my own on 

 Science and Theology. 



" We who are yet upon the safe side of the min- 

 isterial dead-line," he says, " can remember when it 

 was scientific to assert the diverse origin of the race 

 ' from four or six pairs ' of progenitors ; and we 

 have come to the day in which science will not leave 

 us as much as Adam and Eve for a beginning. We 

 have learned the igneous origin of granite, just in 

 time to be commanded to unlearn jt, and substitute 

 an aqueous origin." And the conclusion, therefore, 

 is that science is discredited, and that he who builds 

 upon it plants his house upon the sands. But sci- 

 ence makes no claim to infallibility ; it leaves that 

 claim to be made by theology. " This shifting of 

 positions and this changing of results " but marks its 



