DOCTRINES
DEMONS
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We are indebted for the testimony of Dean Fowler and Dr. White to the booklet written by Rev. W. E. Pietsch
Science: falsely so called
Another department in which the god of this age is active with propaganda is that of Science. Science is the
modern idol before which all are called to bow. Science is, strictly, knowledge, but much that passes for knowledge
is mere speculation and hypothesis.
Take, for instance, the idea that permeates the text-books of all scientific study today - that of Evolution. When
the scientist approaches the Scriptures he excuses his apparent lack of reverence by the plea that science is
concerned only with that which can be demonstrated and proved. Let us test the doctrine of evolution by the
scientists' own standard. While the theories of Darwin are rapidly becoming discredited in the highest scientific
circles, the ordinary scientist is still found quoting and asserting his doctrines. In Darwin's two principal works the
expression, `We may well suppose' occurs more than eight hundred times. It looks as though the scientific mind
wanted to believe Darwin's theory at all costs.
Dr. Etheridge, of the British Museum, has said:
`Nine tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported
by fact. This Museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views'.
It is safe to say that had Darwin known the researches and findings of Mendel, his `Origin of Species' would
never have been written.
Dr. Shadduck points out one cause for this unscientific eagerness to parade mere hypothesis as science:
`It is not so much where men came from as it is where he is going, that disturbs sinners. The front end of the
Bible is not so offensive to the "modernist" as the last end. If God did not create man from the dust, He will not
raise him from the dust (Dan. 12:2). Comparatively few men read with comfort of a "white throne" and opening
books on the reckoning day of God, and it will comfort many if the first three chapters of the book can be so
emptied of meaning that the last three will be upset with lopsidedness'.
It is not necessary that we should review the theories of the evolutionists. We are content to accept the scientist's
own dictum, that science deals with that which can be demonstrated and proved, and the most ardent advocate of
evolution is obliged to withdraw when this criterion is maintained.
The first chapter of the book of Genesis is fundamental to all Scripture. The occupant of a New York sky-
scraper maintaining that, living so high up, he was not at all concerned as to what was happening to the foundations,
would be as unreasonable as would be a believer in the teachings of Ephesians, with its blessings in heavenly places,
who said that we could afford to dispense with Genesis 1.
The beginning of Genesis is fundamental to the Law; its teaching is bound up with the ten commandments.
`For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is' (Exod. 20:11).
The facts of Genesis 1 permeate the Prophets (see Isa. 42:5). Notice how the special character of the `heaven'
made on the second day is reiterated in Isaiah (40:22; 44:24; 45:11-13). `Firmament' is the translation of the
Hebrew word raqia, and means thinness - `something stretched out'.
The third division of the Old Testament - `The Psalms' - is full of references to Genesis 1 (see Psa. 8; 19; 95;
104; 136:5-9; 146:5,6).
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Originally published by The Bible Witness, Runnimede, Hounslow, Middlesex.