280 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 
Our theology is man’s interpretation of God’s reve- 
lations of Himself as recorded in the Bible. Our 
science is man’s interpretation of God’s revelation of 
Himself in nature. Each is God’s revelation, and so 
far as we have understood it, that revelation is of 
the utmost importance in our lives. Each has all 
the inherent short-comings of man’s interpretation. 
Each has all the difficulties necessarily found in 
any stage of a developing understanding. We may 
be sure if we could thoroughly understand God’s 
revelation of Himself as recorded in the Bible and 
his revelation of Himself as recorded in the rocks 
and the tissues of animals as well as in the body 
and mind of man to-day, there would be no diffi- 
culty. When we understand both completely, as per- 
haps we never shall, there will be no contradictions 
of any kind between them. Even now if we are 
firmly convinced that truth must be in both, there 
will be little difficulty in reaching a workable unity 
which will satisfy the present needs of the human 
mind and will not be so crystallized as to prevent a 
future growth. If, however, we hope to find a unity 
between a belief in evolution and a belief in the in- 
spiration and value of the Bible, we must accept both 
of these in the terms of to-day. To reconcile a 
' twentieth century statement of science with an eigh- 
teenth century statement of theology would be as 
