The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

14 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.grateful acknowledgment of what the Scripturesdeclare. The relations now to be dealtwith are those subsisting between religion aspresented in the Bible, (which is in the handsof all, to be exaiiiined and dealt with by scientificinquirers), and science as presented tous in the present day, for the acceptance ofall. The claim to universal acceptance foundhere on both sides, is that which gives specialinterest and true logical importance to theproblem. Christianity professes to discovera religion to be accepted of all men, and apractice to be observed by all: science professesto give an account of the state of thingsaround us in the world, to be accepted by all,and acknowledged in practice if men wouldadapt themselves to the natural conditions oftheir life. This claim to universal acceptanceis not affected on either side by the fact thatdiversities of interpretation and applicationemerge among the upholders of Christianity,and the expounders of science. Such diversitiesare well known to exist in both spheresof thought. It needs to be recogilized at alltimes, and prominently stated in such a discussioiias ;the present, that under the conditioiisdeterminiiig the attaiilmeiit of know-