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ticular item, is plainly an open question. We are merely 
required to accept both, to ignore neither. 
At the present moment it cannot be said that Science is in 
a position to give any decisive opinion upon this great ques- 
tion. It is one, however, to which her thoughts and energies 
have already been largely directed, and will be still more 
largely in the future. Nor is there any doubt that the ten- 
dency of the most advanced scientific thought is strongly 
towards the fashioning theory rather than the creating cle novo 
one. In the face of this fact, it is of the utmost importance 
for the advocates of the Bible to remember that Genesis 
presents us with both principles ever co-working together. 
Looking back over the whole of this paper, we may boldly say 
that the doctrine of the manner of creation is the only part 
of the field where war is possible between the Biblical cos- 
mogony and Science. In respect to principles, in respect to 
detailed facts, in respect to order, in respect to time, there is 
peace. A better understanding on both sides has led to union 
where before there was hostility. This point alone remains 
debateable ground. The issue here, also, cannot be doubtful ; 
but it may be retarded, as it has been most unhappily retarded 
in other quarters, by the ignorance, prejudice, and blindness 
of those who, professing to stand up for the truth, yet, by 
their countenance of self-invented errors, prove too often its 
direst enemies. May a timely warning prevent the occurrence 
of the like disasters in the present case. 
The length to which this paper has already run renders it 
imperative to hasten to a close. It is impossible, however, to 
conclude without a few remarks on the general result at which 
we have arrived by the detailed comparison of Science with 
Scripture now completed. It is not their concord, in the 
particular case in point, to which we would refer : that needs 
no further comment. It is rather their relative spheres, their 
proper scope. We have seen how simply, yet how pro- 
foundly, how briefly, yet how comprehensively, the narrative 
of Genesis lays the foundation of all natural theology ; yet 
withal how exceedingly sparing it is in distinctly scientific 
information. The contrast between this and the teaching of 
Science is very striking. Here, on the contrary, are detailed 
facts in abundance, facts of the greatest value as illustrations 
and confirmations of the Scriptural doctrines in all their lower 
and more phenomenal aspects ; the clearest testimonies pos- 
sible to their truth in relation to Nature. But as the doctrines 
take a higher flight, and rising from Nature soar ever nearer 
and nearer to Nature's God, the testimony of Science be- 
comes meagre, her voice falters, grows indistinct, and soon is 
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